KEY COLORS painted accordion Zine
Pride month! It's June, the world is bursting with color and flowers and creatures (at least here in Maine) and I was struck with the urge to PAINT!!! I had wanted to make KEY fashion zine for years, but never could quite figure out what approach I wanted to take. The colorful world inspired me: make a rainbow. I had been itching to use my restocked gouache to paint for months, and wanted to use this an an exercise in drawing directly with paint: no sketches or pencils, just build form with color. It ended up being challenging to abandon line-based drawing but was so fun and exciting, I painted for four solid days to finish it. It was a cool process, so here's how it progressed. I started by poring over reference images and calculating the size and shape of the thing. Always trying to be frugal, I aimed for a standard paper size and landed on 18 inches wide, then figured out how I would divide that up into eight panels- not the standard spectrum...