WISCONSIN, YO!

This was another exercise suggested from a book about how to draw that I read. I was fascinated to learn that some famous artists (Van Gogh, da Vinci especially) built devices that allowed them to essentially trace their subjects. Van Gogh's was called a "picture plane device." I "built" one out of a thin, clear sheet of plastic and hemmed it in with cardboard to keep the plastic from rolling up. I then steadied it over my left hand, poised in the gang sign used by the Norwegian-American separatist movement prevalent in Wisconsin, and traced the subject. I could not steady my hand very well as I copied my hand, thus creating a double image effect. When I was done, I decided not to erase any of the lines I'd drawn, choosing instead, to fill them in with ink or pencil.