Lines and Dots

Connecting points

 In this drawing, the horizontal lines connect two points in the landscape and draw a limit - cutting a section of land and sky off from the wider landscape. I was reading about biodomes and thinking about ways I could seperate and encase features of an ecosystem within a limited space in my drawing.

 Like a gust of wind moving over the land and through the sky, the lines connect the different parts of the lanscape in a flowing motion  The dots pinpoint where the lines intersect and suggest particals moving around this system as well.

Some thoughts and reflections on how I use line and dots in my drawings and paintings...

Lines

Lines that map an open space and describe motion within it

Lines that connect two points

A stop. A pause. Stilness amidst motion

Thin straight lines. Definite lines.

Threads pulled tight. Taut. 

Pencil lines

Horizontal. Vertical. A solid, grounded place within a composition.

A crossing or bridge between two planes.

Flowing lines. Stretching out. Spreading. Folding back in cyclical motion.

Delicate, fragile, spindly lines. Frayed at the edges

Gestural lines.

Painted lines.

Dots

Where gestural lines overlap, I will often use dots to mark the precise point where these lines intersect. The dots map and create patterns and rhythms throughout the compostion. Later, I might rub out or paint over lines and the dots are what remains. 

Becasue these drawings grow out from a central point, the lines become more concentrated around this central area. Naturally, more lines overlap part of the drawing, so the dots are closer together and get further apart as they move out from this core . The dots are dispersed throughout the composition

Pencil and painted lines that describe motion, flow and difusion