While at Renegade I remember walking by a booth and seeing some marvelous prints of submarines but I didn’t want to buy prints and have to keep them safe and flat for the week on my trip. I swore to myself I’d go through all the artists on the site though to find the ones that I’d seen and liked and sure enough I found Tugboat Printshop – a husband and wife duo from Pittsburgh. Valerie Lueth, like Meander, also does obsessive, small-scale drawing that look to tactile and woven to me I had to share them.
Each of these drawings is only 4 inches by 4 inches and are done with archival pen.
My brother, when we were younger, was into cutting things into tiny bits meticulously and he made a piece of artwork like the above once out of strips of a watercolor he painted, cut, and wove together. Very cool.
As I’m embarking on my latest project this above drawing has particular resonance – I’m getting very very into domes.
This one looks very cellular, psychadelic, but cellular none the less.
I can’t get over the shading and regularity she’s able to achieve with just the pen and paper – really inspirational!
I love them all – I wish I could watch her make one!