Keeping Time

Writing exercises –

Here’s another experiment with the new studio setup. Court markings.

Look! No more pen.

Here’s a photo of the setup I made today to match yesterday’s diagram. The black matchstick looking up at the pen through the glass is the very very small video camera I’m using. I’ve made a (messy) wire and fabric clamp for the camera, to keep the camera entirely supported by the pen, which here is resting on the upper surface of the glass against a sheet of thin paper. The clamp keeps the pen and camera exactly in step with one another as I draw or write, so the position of the nib on the screen never changes.

The paper is just 50gsm and the pen is a heavy permanent marker, so the ink comes straight through the paper and is visible to the camera filming from underneath.

Below are a couple of videos experimenting with the new setup. The light quality is poor because it was evening by the time I got all this sorted out… I’ve yet to solve the problem of artificial lighting.

… And the little question of the MATTER. It always comes last.

Can I omit the pen altogether?

Still more drawing for now.