The Artist’s Magazine – October 2019

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With a sharp graphite pencil, I traced only the shadow shapes on the

photocopy. I didn’t draw any contours—just “islands” that encompass each

shadow shape. In at least one area, there’s a light island inside a shadow, so

I encircled that, too.

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I made sure I closed all the

shapes. There should be no lines

with visible beginnings or endings.

When completed, the traced drawing

resembled a series of irregular islands.

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Next, I began filling in all the islands with red

colored pencil.

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The result, Nike in Red Pencil (11x8½), is a radically

reduced image of the statue, consisting solely of shapes.