CHALKBOARD ASSEMBLY

A few questions:
-Can you first do dark then light?
-Does it get you anything if you first apply a very dark tone, and then apply light tones over it?
-Will the forms of the light tone still read over the dark tones?
-Can you move toward form if you overlap the dark tones over each other, and then overlap the light tones over themselves?
-Can the dark and then light tones be merged into form automatically?
-Will this work in a Form Combine Mode, so that a holistic form is at least suggested with the dark and light?

The answers to all of the above questions are yes. This is a new Assembly which I call Chalkboard. And, of course, this assembly has it’s roots in drawing class 101. That’s where you are asked to draw with a white pencil on a black piece of paper. Or, as the name suggests, draw with white chalk on a black board. Which most likely has it’s roots in the representations on Greek pottery (see photo below).

What I find amazing is that time, and thus transparency, and thus holistic form can be maintained. For the above drawing, I used black and white acrylic ink. The black tones were somewhat diluted. The white tones were from a brush dipped directly into the ink bottle. The lines are mainly white Prismacolor pencil with an orange Conte pencil. The shape that I was looking at was per the photo below that I took in Athens a few months ago.

So, a new Assembly to start out the new year. Also, the above drawing is my first attempt using Chalkboard. I wanted to show you my first drawing, as a way of demonstrating that Transparent Drawing can go any way you want (there is no bad drawing), can employ any assembly you can dream up (we recently looked at Shard Assembly), it is open source, and we can still end up with a reasonable drawing that knowledges form that was previously unimaginable .

When we use Chalkboard, the “board” needs to be a form. I have not said this in awhile but it is worth repeating; we rarely, if ever, do a background tone. The dark tone needs to be a form, which we achieve very simply by overlapping some of the tokens.

And the white can be from a wide range of media options, some of which are:
-Colored pencil (Prismacolor)
-Acrylic ink
-Pastel (Conte) type pencil
-Chalk (might work for tones)
-Water Soluble (Watercolor) pencil
-Diluted opaque paint (at some point, it’s gotta become transparent, right?)
-you name it

Nothing like a new year, a new decade, and a new Assembly to start it all off.