Amagal

The second experiment with this new aðitriçâ style has me revisit an acquaintance from the Kaxa Lecorbu in May. The goal of the style is exuberant, rapid and intense, posterlike development, without the fussing of filling in darks or worrying about pencil-rendered textures. The style limits me to markers in a fixed palette, one red, one blue, one green, all off primary. A deeper blush and an apricot for skin tones, plus a warm light gray round out the palette. A pointed Sharpie provides ultra-dense masses of black, while a fine Pentel ballpoint provides hairlines, both blacks applied last. The image is laid out in 4h pencil. I sketch the subject freely, attention to proportion but not detail. No worrying about baubles. The background, a train cabin, is ignored and replaced by a flamboyant explosion. This image takes minutes to produce. I am not used to such rapidity and the warbling of the marker, but grow very satisfied with the effect. Drawn 22 August 1997, Tayya 58a2, five dozen eighth phase (Ñixaþa-Alindðal Xrga, “life phase of Lindsay”), at Amherst. The top image (Aveacrixe, s5231a43) has bled through, making for a wonderful effect.

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