In addition to my knitting and design swatches, sketches, and written notes, I have an architectural drafting table with paper, pencils, and some extra fiber. I am slowly developing mixed media techniques to express myself.
Drafting table with gray and white opaque paper, various pencils, trace paper, a utility knife, and gray wool fiber. Shana S. Cohen, 2019-2020. All rights reserved.
A ‘knit drawing’, if you will. I created this ‘architectural drawing’ out of yarn / knitting rather than graphite or in. I knit the ‘paper’ and built on top of it. The ‘paper’ size is similar to a sheet of Arches, my favorite for actual drawings. It’s a basic section of a house, filled with architectural lines, including a ‘highlighter’ line, all covered with a ‘veil’ of something else… something both trying to suppress and allowing some to escape. The lineweights are thick and thicker– the essence of true shanalines– with 2 sneaky thin ones.
Eponymous, 2019. Shana S. Cohen, all rights reserved.
So it’s me, sort of, as the architect slash knitter. The technical slash free form creative expressionist.