Peony and Finn from My Journals

•  New Project:

On going–daily at most, comic strip.

•  Title:

Lulu and Bubba,

Pastimes and Enterprises

•  Lulu is built from curves.

Bubba from angles.

•  Anything can happen in terms of cells and layout.

•  On 9" x 12 " blocked water color paper only in landscape orientation.

•  Hope that the image could remain abstract and what they say and any narration could provide concrete.

•  Periwinkle and another color  F&W ink will be used with dip pen.

•  Day, date, and time each strip but order between pages is constantly shuffled to provide on going process ease.

•  Every page started is part of cartoon and will find its place in series after time. Nothing is thrown out.

•  New Years 2006 will be the first time to evaluate and perhaps depart from these simple guidelines.

•  Wild Blue Yonder and Periwinkle Prismacolor pencil colors  will be used as samples from which to mix F&W ink for project.

•  Both colors will be used freely with Lulu and Bubba images and surrounding.

•  Finger will be used for washes occasionally when absolutely necessary.

•  All drawing and borders and text and washes will be in these two colors.

ª  No white. Only thick ink and dilutions to stains etc.

•  Good title

•  Words or drawing can lead the way in creating each page of the strip.

•  Each strip is confined to one 9" x 12" page.
•  The point of the strip isn't to create a "beautiful" comic strip. It is to discover the lives and expressions of Lulu and Bubba.

•  Listen to what they have to tell me and show me.

•  White page or colored ink can also lead the strip.

•  Photographs can lead (inspire.) Readings the same. Quotations also. Things I might find on the road as well. Anything and everything should lead and be in the strip.

7/26/2005



© Donald Grube, 2010