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The Opening of a Giant Door
The Opening of a Giant Door
pen and ink on Yupo
6 x 8 inches (plus a wide border for framing)
This item is unmounted and unframed.
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Sometimes you make a very small move and then suddenly a giant door opens and a new exciting path appears before you and thus you understand how something so small carries a potential to create such big magic! Now you know that small is big! - Mehmet Murat Ildan
Keep Your Own Sky
pen and ink on Yupo
5 x 7 inches (plus a wide border for framing)
This item is unmounted and unframed.
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A fallen feather
knows as much about return
as any wandering comet.
Small things keep their own sky.
- Monika Ajay Kaul
pen and ink on Yupo
5 x 7 inches (plus a wide border for framing)
This item is unmounted and unframed.
(click on the image to purchase)
A fallen feather
knows as much about return
as any wandering comet.
Small things keep their own sky.
- Monika Ajay Kaul
Keep Your Own Sky
Recently the studio has been abuzz with small things...a seasonal swarm of flying ants, exploratory bees and clouds of pollen! The downside of several warm days and open windows.
There are also small things in progress everywhere on the work tables, the drying rack and the staging shelves. An upcoming online auction called the All Small Event has the malarkey flying in a teeny tiny way. A delightful change in focus!
These two pieces snuck out of the event roster to hang out here - a little (pun intended) malarkey to start the week!
There are also small things in progress everywhere on the work tables, the drying rack and the staging shelves. An upcoming online auction called the All Small Event has the malarkey flying in a teeny tiny way. A delightful change in focus!
These two pieces snuck out of the event roster to hang out here - a little (pun intended) malarkey to start the week!
About the art: my design mind is wandering from sleeping birds to fairytales to storybooks to robots and back again. So I sat down, grabbed two concept sketches, a small graphic art pen and some Yupo. They key with using ink and the Yupo is to work from right to left (I am predominantly left-handed, though I paint with both hands) to avoid dragging your hand through the wet ink. It took me a while to get into this habit. So many times I just begin on the left and make a smudgy mess of things. Oy! These two seemed effortless, however. Watching the tin man come to life in this piece brought a big smile to my face, as he is my favorite character in the book.
Here's a link to YouTube to listen and watch the blog!
Bonus! How about a studio tour?
And shazam! Your studio has certainly been abuzz! The Tin Man and Dorothy and Keep just about jumped right out of my laptop to buzz around me here!
Sure looks like you figured out the right-to-left-with-ink-on-yupo thing. Each time I try to land my brain on the idea of right to left, I find myself identifying with the Tin Man, wanting to say, "oil can, oil can" to help grease the process hahaha!
Have fun with the All Small Event!
Truer words were never spoken. The only thing I’d add is those small cracks that bust the dam open happen for those artist who continue to but the work in. It may not happen on your schedule, but if you continue to put in the work and raise the bar for yourself the dam eventually bursts.
I love the artwork. I’m promising myself that any sketching I do this week will be ink on Yupo to push myself into unfamiliar territory.
Carl
And I am so freaking excited to see what happens when you explore pen and ink and Yupo!!! xo
Love this piece... one of the few books I read! Wizard of Oz.... watched the animation.... COOL!!! I am familiar with right to left with reading and sometimes writing in Hebrew!
Less is more so small is BIG!
Your studio is a dream! So much light!