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“Sniffing Armpit” 40 x 27 inches machine drawing & archival print

June 13, 2014 By Mike Lyon

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In late May and early June I produced a 40 x 27 inch drawing in black and white ink pen on paper I’d painted gray. The drawing is of Carrie, Johanna, and Ross standing on my platform and I’ve always called it “Sniffing Armpit” because Johanna kept urging Carrie to “sniff my armpit” and Carrie, hilariously, complied. I like the image very much.

Mid-June I converted the drawing layers to DXF vectors and adjusted them in Illustrator and Photoshop to produce the output file I sent to Dolphin Printing. You’ll find images of the original pen and ink drawing, the archival print output, and a detail below

"Sniffing" 2014, 40 x 27 inches, drawing in black and white ink over watercolor-tinted paper

“Sniffing” 2014, 40 x 27 inches, drawing in black and white ink over watercolor-tinted paper

detail of archival print

detail of archival print

"Sniffing Armpit" 2014, 40 x 27 inches, archival print

“Sniffing Armpit” 2014, 40 x 27 inches, archival print

 

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