Frankly Emily

Just a little doodle from last night.  I haven’t had much time to work on things lately since I just finished moving.  Once I find my colored pencils, I think I want to turn this in to a color drawing.

I’m starting to think of these much more as automatic writing instead of scribbling.  And by no means am I channeling your long dead aunt to make this happen.  It’s just a good opportunity to loosen up and not worry about what’s ending up on the page.

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Another experiment with scribbling.  I did some watercolor washes in the background and then on top of it I tried to do this monoprint.  But it didn’t work out quite right.  Maybe it has been too long since I took printmaking and I’ve forgotten a step.  Either way, I kind of liked how it turned out.  So here you go.

-FranklyEmily

Photo by Emily Franklin

I’m not sure what got me started scrolling through the archive of photos stored on my hard drive this morning… but once I got started, I couldn’t resist pulling out a few of my favorites for today’s post. It’s no coincidence the following are all black and white. What can I say, there is something timeless about a beautiful black and white photo – whether taken 60 years ago, or just last year.

I’m feeling inspired!

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Alright, I’m trying something new here.  I’m notorious for my extremely tight, very linear drawings.  So in an effort to loosen up a bit (and just for the sake of doing something totally different), I’m doing some blind scribbles.  This one was the first.  Laying snug in my bed, ready for a night’s sleep, I turned off the lights, closed my eyes and just started drawing whatever came to mind – pictures, words, textures, etc.  The only stipulation I tried to stick to was that it was all one continuous line.  read more