Around ten years ago it began to become seem necessary to introduce elements of colour variation into my drawings. Before this time they nearly entirely monochrome.
I lost sight of the qualities of Monochrome, that colour can often compete with the context. Sometimes this works really well, but sometimes it doesn’t, and I guess there’s no real way of knowing beforehand.
But I have enjoyed turning these drawings into black and white, I feel like it’s both given a new life, and given me a new idea of maybe a way to go forwards as a new year begins.
John B Ledger 