"Fishtank". Charcoal and ink on paper. For this drawing, I used cardboard along with charcoal, ink, and sandpaper. Bending the cardboard, folding it, shredding it, rubbing it and dipping it in the medium proved to be a useful and liberating method of achieveing a variety of marks and textures. 

"Fishtank" (detail)

"Unititled" (mixed media, including canvas, nylar, paper, ink, charcol, glue, sand, ink sawdust, oil pastel, chalk)

 

The assignment required us to create a minumum of 5 "surfaces" by way of material manipulation and transformation. Once we harnessed a process (or processes) to create a unique surface, we were then to arrange them in an "abstract composition"

"Untitled" (detail)

"Birch Tree #3" Mised media (gesso, ink, sawdust, and branches on paper). 

"Birch Tree #5" Gesso, pencil, charcol, and sand on paper

"Sifts and Trails" (detail)

 

"Natural Pattern 1". Gesso, charcoal powder, and watercolor pencil on paper

 

"Natural Pattern 2". Charcoal powder and rubber cement on paper.

"Natural Pattern 3". Charcoal powder on paper