Eid Ma Clack Shaw Painting

“Eid Ma Clack Shaw,” focuses on the abstraction of recognizable patterns of expression, once commonly found in personally handwritten lists and correspondence, but now seen as vague memorials to an outmoded way of life. My initial source of inspiration for this series of work came from The Palmer Method of Business Writing, a book of penmanship instruction dating back to the late 19th century. In it, Palmer dissects and closely studies the making of each cursive letter of the alphabet and then creates drills consisting of repeating patterns for practicing handwriting. This diptych (two 30" x 40" pieces) is made with acrylic, ink and gouache on heavy weight (140lb.) Strathmore paper with a vellum surface. (There is no grey border on the artwork–this is used to show the relationship of the diptych.) It is unframed and will ship rolled in a tube.