1978

Dropping In, Watercolor on Paper, 10" x 7", 1988

Dropping In, Digital Art, 2019

Dropping In, Ball-point Pen on an index card, 1978

Dropping In, Pen and Ink on paper, 1978

Dropping In, Adobe Illustrator Artboard, 2019

Top Left: Dropping In, Watercolor on Paper, 10" x 7", 1988

Top Right: Dropping In, Digital Art, 2019

Bottom Left: Dropping In, Ball-point Pen on an index card, 1978

Bottom Center: Dropping In, Pen and Ink on paper, 1978

Bottom Right: Dropping In versions, Adobe Illustrator Arrboard, 2019

In 2019, I was mainly creating digital art with Adobe Draw for iPad, which was very limited in terms of what one could do with a vector drawing. You can see a difference between this piece and those I have created with Adobe Illustrator for iPad and desktop Illustrator. Eventually I will redo this one as a vector drawing to get the sharper, more precise lines and scalable drawings that I can reuse, recolor or rearrange.

Stream, Linoleum Print, Version 1, 1978

Stream, Linoleum Print, Version 2, 1978

Stream, Linoleum Print, Version 3, 1978

Stream, Linoleum Print, three versions, 1978

Stream, Digital Art in process, Adobe Illustrator Artboard, 2023

To digitize Stream, I started out with the Pen tool in Illustrator, drawing the streams of color and then the objects. Next, I "cut" into the solid color block by applying the Pathfinder "minus front" tool. The above shows the cut stamp moved apart from the background so you can see how moving the stamp will change the color background. I can change either the color of the stamp or the colors of the background without one affecting the other. This is the magic of working with digital "layers."