My Inner Monologue – The smooth paper or the textured paper. That is the question!
New grain paper is great to experiment with… How a pencil mark can alter its course because of it’s surface.
I am not sure what I favour. The smooth or the textured paper?
The textured, is more complicated, more aesthetically interesting, whereas the smooth holds a ‘solid’ form without interruptions of these textures and crevices. In short, the smooth paper creates a more aesthetically pleasing drawing. Whereas the journey of creating a drawing on the new grain paper is more interesting but doesn’t always look as good.
I’m not sure which paper to continue with…
After much deliberation on what must seem to the an outsider as a trivial question – A ‘first world’ problem, which has no merit to even think about, never mind write about. – I am moving forward with the smooth paper (for now). But will dabble with my textured paper in the future with different compositions and designs.
My inner monologue runs away with itself, sometimes into heated one man debates over every detail of my practice.
Anyway, I will get back to creating drawings…
[on smooth paper ;-)]
