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Zen gardens on paper
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Much thanks for that @Aetas! I’ve worked on this peace of paper for about three years and it has evolved like a pair of jeans day after day. An evolution of paper so to speak. And this paper is 850gsm so it’s like the 25oz and I’m thrilled to see how the paper has “faded”. Here’s a few pics of the evolution.
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Daily Zen
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Digging deep on this one!
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Daily zen
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Daily Zen
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Still hard to imagine that’s paper!
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You might say “overworked is the starting point”
Begins like this
Evolves into this
Quoting the Ben Stiller scene from Happy Gilmore: “My fingers hurt!”
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Some days Zen is easy, others not so much. Do the best you can…
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Thanks @Steve. All colored pencil. This is 850gsm cold pressed watercolor paper and each line that you see takes many minutes to complete with a considerable amount of hand force. Takes a loooong time to etch lines with a soft pencil.
The first lines
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@Steve essentially, yes. Etching, engraving, tattooing could all work in a pinch. But the problem is that this process is both additive and subtractive, and the texture evolves as well, with all the movements of my hand and rubbing of the lines (which itself is a laborious exercise), so it’s not easy to describe what is ultimately taking place on this sheet of paper. That’s why I like to refer to them as zen gardens, since the process is like raking sand with all the paper pulp, pencil dust and broken pieces of color that get accumulated.
