You can begin with a drawing (one of your own or maybe if you have a Rembrandt around) slowly erasing the image until you have found your resting place.
When I named-dropped Rembrandt in History of Drawing Lesson Plan: Lesson Eleven I was using him as the prime example, the definition of a masterpiece, his artwork so valuable that it would be unthinkable to erase. Certain with the possibility that you have a Rembrandt at home!!!
The next day while delivering several of our beach plastic artworks to Cubberley Artist Studio Program in Palo Alto to be included in Eco Echo: Art and Environmental Lab, I spied an array of frames set out, free for the taking. Always on the lookout for anything that has potential reuse I took a closer look. Low and behold — there in the free-pile was my Rembrandt — his iconic self-portrait. Yes, indeed!!! I tucked it under my arm and away it went.
Praise be to serendipity.
Back in my studio, on the search to discover a new constellation (Mickey Mouse), a new meaning (Marc's moustache), I set about to erase with an electric eraser.
