Pete McPartlan

I’m doing a series of drawings for my friend Jo Millett and I’m almost finished – these are some of the sketches I did before I started. I was trying to find a system for drawing the intricate patterns found in drying mud on the banks of the river Hull (from memory). None of them really capture that but there is something of the process of mud drying out and being pulled back into the water that seeps through and a couple of them get a nice balance of the stochastic and organic for my liking. The final drawings are quite a lot different as they use a hybrid of some of the patterns/techniques in these and have wandered away from the process I had in mind initially – anyway I don’t want to give too much away – but I’ll post photos of the finished pictures once Jo has seen them.

Also, below is an image of ink that has been left to its own devices doing a far better job than i could. I’m trying to think of a way I could dry out ink in lots of identical small containers that I could then either photograph or scan to make a short film.