stella untalan : mark making

drawing a day 03122012

Stella Untalan — Sat, 19 May 2012 10:33:24 +0000

What is going on with this color scheme? Maybe only one more in this space. It’s strangely soft.

packing for drawing trip.

Stella Untalan — Sat, 19 May 2012 03:00:56 +0000

Checking my art supplies.

nylon japanese watercolor brushes — check.
aqueous pencils — check.
drawing pens — check

water color moleskine — check.
journal moleskine — check
sketchbook moleskine — check

pencil sharpener?

Drawing in the mountains.

Stella Untalan — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:31:32 +0000

I will be away drawing in the mountains for a few days. So excited to have this time after missing it for the past two years! Expecting to have lots of fun stuff to share when I return.

drawing a day 03112012

Stella Untalan — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:10:29 +0000

Still light. Easy.

Repeating my little football. I really like that form. I’m thinking of using it more repetitively. I love using the orange. Valencia!

drawing a day 03102012

Stella Untalan — Thu, 17 May 2012 18:08:22 +0000

Minimal drawings continue.

Supe light touch. Floating.

drawing a day 03092012

Stella Untalan — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:55:32 +0000

Working with the same set of tools as the last drawing. Keeping a light touch. Looking at how these marks could move into an analog space with a substrate that will absorb the ink or pigment.

Thinking more about moving the drawings from the digital to the analog.

Excited.

drawing a day 03082012

Stella Untalan — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:49:04 +0000

Made some new brushes for this drawing. They respond to speed. When I draw fast they make a very thin line. As I slow down it becomes thicker. It has the feeling of using a device that is loaded with pigment and the substrate absorbs based on the time spent in any one spot.

Since I’m using a digital device this pigment doesn’t bleed but it reacts. Gonna try a couple more.

drawing a day 03072012

Stella Untalan — Sat, 12 May 2012 16:20:58 +0000

There’s something silly about this drawing. I’m enjoying the thick inky lines. Like paint markers.

in the studio : May 2012

Stella Untalan — Fri, 11 May 2012 03:57:54 +0000

It was a long day in the studio. I spent a considerable amount of time experimenting with new materials for a series of works on paper. I have been cutting pages of text from a number of exceptional design magazines to use in these works. The quality of these magazines means there is a great deal of care that had been taken in setting the type. That kind of care creates a color and rhythm over paragraphs.

I used one such page to create these test sketches.

These are several strips that I cut at different widths. They are all the same length. I was working on ordering and spacing them in a way that is consistent with the way I make my repetitive marks.

The spacing of the strips and the way the edges extend beyond the background sheet are also consistent with my need to break the defined boundaries that I set for myself. The strips are rotated to create different rhythms. These are a few snapshots I took to document my process.

drawing a day 03062012

Stella Untalan — Fri, 11 May 2012 03:30:01 +0000

Decided to keep the same color palette and some flowing marker-like tools.

I’ve always loved making these elliptical shapes. They are like sea shells to me. After I had made this drawing I thought of mussels.