PAINTER’S TAPE

I’ve become fascinated with the form generation potential of painter’s edge tape.

If you have done any painting, you are no doubt aware of this product. It is typically blue, comes in different widths, and it pulls easily off of your paper. And I now realize it comes in different colors, per the image below.

Now, intuitively, you would think that opaque tape has no place when the goal is transparent knowledge of holistic form. Still, it works, and I’m having great fun trying out the possibilities. So far, I have been using it in thin strips. And I have found that it is an assembly that allows the generation of holistic form.

For the drawing above, I ended established a weave of the tape strips. This was a multi step process in which I assembled tape strips and spray paint in layers. For this outing, I made sure that any exposed tape had paint on it.

I assembled the drawing with approximately the following steps:
-draw a holistic form with blue permanent felt tip
-apply a layer of tape strips in resonance with the drawing
-white spray paint in a semi-light coat
-more tape strips
-layer of black spray paint
-scratch marks into wet black paint
-remove some of the tape strips
-first grey then fluorescent pink acrylic ink lines, DABF

COLLAGE

This opens up an entirely new Assembly for Transparent Drawing. In fact, what we have now started is collage. This is, as usual, completely open ended. I’m starting to imagine the application of thin strips of newsprint. What about thread? Or if we think just about painter’s tape, the thin strips can be cut with an xacto, as I did in the above drawing. The strips can be torn. Or they can be applied in short segments. The possibilities are endless. This is open source. You are here at the beginning. This is exciting, right?

I think that the applied strips will need to be thin, as then they simulate the drawn line. But I might easily be proven wrong. I might prove myself wrong. What will happen if we use wide tape strips? This might work just great.

All of the principals that we are introducing here are grounded in the fundamental theory of Transparent Drawing. I find it simply wonderful to be able to draw with an assembly that I have never done before. In fact, I am obsessed with the innovation of new assemblies. And, really, isn’t this all any of us wants to do? Why be boring and restrained? For me, this is freedom. Take care of your imagination. Don’t we all want to explore new assemblies on our pathway to holistic form?