After a night out with my friends Micah, Mark (get a blog dude), and Yuko, I said “HEY! Do you guys have any big paper?”
We were all a bit tipsy so nobody hesitated. All Yuko had was the last few feet from a roll of some sort of translucent craft paper. It was 3×5 feet, which was clearly a blessing from the Index Card Muses.
I did the lines with my extra WIDE Copic marker as if it was just an extra large index card. But ink wasn’t enough. This thing needed color. Yuko had brushes and some cheap jars of Liquitex acrylic (you can see the jar lid above), so we used that. If I remember, she started painting at the upper left, Mark started on the right, and I started at the bottom. Then we all kind of met in the middle and started painting/blending/merging the different spaces.
So on totally the wrong paper, with cheap, somewhat crummy acrylic paint, on the floor, we had a great time and produced a piece that I still enjoy seeing at their house.
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I love the finished product. Do you guys trade every week who gets to hang it on their wall?
I’m tempted to steal it every time I’m over there, but Micah might notice if the big painting over his workspace goes missing.
This rocks, not only is the finished piece great, but the time creating with friends is enjoyed and remembered every time you see it.
I have several sketchbooks, but i hardly use them because i find that my favorite doodlestock are these 4.25″ x 5.75″ note pads made from bondpaper the county had to throw away ‘cause it had a watermark of the old seal that the ACLU took offense to a few years ago. When that happened, i thought what a fucking waste – to make the county scrap anything semblance of the old county seal and spend millions (of taxpayer money) to replace them with a new cross-less seal. I still think it’s stupid, but having a near-inexhaustable supply of great doodling pads makes me not give too much of a shit anymore.
Jose, love the word “doodlestock”. It’s great you’re re-purposing those pads. Can’t wait to get some of your work on here.