After a three-day karate special training, I asked one of my juniors, Dinh Hoang, if he would model for me. His eyes had ‘that look’ people get after hard practice, and I wanted to show that kind of metaphysical clarity.
“Dinh” 2013, 30 x 22.5 inches, blue, red, yellow, black, white inks on paper
Details of completed drawing
Details of work in progress
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- Red ink layers get started
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- Red layers farther along
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- First attempt had blue out of register
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- Beginning again, this time with blue
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- Red over blue in register
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- detail of red over blue
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- detail of blue, red, yellow
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- out of register in upper left, completed drawing lower right
