Leah’s Drawing Portfolio: Assignment 6

Ink wash on 9” x 12” newsprint.

My first archive of portraits is referenced from old family photographs. I decided to compliment these with a second archive consisting of vintage clocks to represent the passage of time since the drawings are of my family and their friends from fairly long ago. I went with vintage clocks instead of modern clocks because they better fit the time frame that the family photos would have been taken. Each portrait has an associated clock that for one reason or another I felt suited the person I was drawing. I matched the backgrounds of these pairs. At the end I bound the drawings into a book in the order presented. All of the portraits were done before the clocks (the exception being portrait 1 and 12 since I chose to redo these ones at the end of all of the drawings) and then all the clocks were drawn in the order following the portraits.

Torn up pieces of newsprint white glued into ground.

Background done first. I used one of my back sheets, tore it up, and white glued it onto another sheet of newsprint.

Background drawn first, a light wash with some drips.

Background drawn first. Burnt holes in paper with lighter.

Background drawn first. I used one of the sheets that I had been placing underneath all my other drawings while working for this drawing.

These next ten are done on better quality drawing paper.

At the end I binded all of the drawings into a book using the 4-hole Japanese book binding technique. I made a front and back cover for the book out of the nicer drawing paper.