- Soft Lines, Soft Lines No. 02 and Planform are my newest cardboard artworks.
- I draw them straight onto the cardboard with only a pencil grid underneath. I do not know how they will end.
- Each one took about three days. I plan to make more.
Soft Lines on a green wall.
Where did the line artworks start?
While I was making Back 2 Back, I started playing with how thick the lines should be in different places. I also drew some of the lines in other colours than black, and it worked. That gave me the idea to let a line change colour as I draw it, so it changes both form and colour along the way.
Do I plan the drawing?
No. I draw a pencil grid first, and then I draw straight onto the cardboard. I do not know how the artwork will end up looking, and that is what makes it interesting for me. The only thing I measure is that one side matches the other.
I play with dots, with where the weight sits in the picture, and with colour. The lines are the main thing in these works, more than in anything I have made before.
Soft Lines before framing, with the pencil grid, and in side light where the cut layers show.
Soft Lines and Soft Lines No. 02
Soft Lines is A3 and sits in a solid oak frame. In places I cut down into the layers of the cardboard. Soft Lines No. 02 has the same calm colours, but this time I drew it symmetrically, with an eye at the top. It is 30 × 40 cm in a black frame. Each of them took about three days.
Soft Lines No. 02.
How did Planform get its name?
My titles come when the artwork is finished. I look at it, and the name comes from what I see. To me Planform looked a bit like a plane seen from above. After a while I found the word: planform is the term for the shape of an aircraft seen from directly overhead.
Planform is small, 18 × 25 cm. I built the frame myself from wood and filler. When it had dried, I painted it and drew a Posca line along the edge. The frame took a few days on its own.
Planform, and the side of the frame I built for it.
Will there be more?
Yes. I like working with the different lines, and I plan to make more artworks in this style.
