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Brandl: Tornado Romp

A stone lithograph abstract comic. Titled Tornado Romp. 70 x 100 cm. Two colors. 2001. This was one of the first pieces where I was concentrating extremelly hard on my "iconosequentiality" idea --- wherein the overall presence (a la a "normal iconic painting) and the sequentiality (a la a "normal" comic) are both competely equally contributing to the whole. I printed it with a wonderful (and famous) master printer, Urban Stoob, in St. Gallen, Switzereland. Because he enjoys and masters printerly problems, I decided to print in only two colors (and to save money): yellow and grey --- with the stipulation that I did not want anything to become green (as those of you who know from painting or printing, grey and yellow or black and yellow always create green). We mastered it by getting the yellow and grey ink colors excatly correct, and the drawing on the stone correct (some crayon, some painted, yellow revealed, and grey over yellow), so that I got many hue variations of yellow, blue and a blueish grey.

Abstract 2 Series 2

Abstract 2 from my second series of Abstract comics. I have made about ten so far in this series. You can see the rest at my website drawingsilence. With this series I was interested in exploring using found images as a basis and painting on the gutter of a comic page thus creating the panels. This was early in my experimentation and it didn't quiet work as expected. I thought I could paint the entire image with black and then carefully remove the paint creating panels. However the paint stuck to the paper a lot better than I expected, creating an interesting accident.