the brain goes buzzz

So its been a rather busy day with housework, looking after my dog Maddie and dealing with the dinner. But I felt I needed to post todays thinkings on the concept of drawing.

 You see, today i did a spot of sewing, half from boredom but to try out making an image through thread. Its not the first time ive sewed to build an image. But i thought of this experiment in that, the line the pen would make, is being replaced by the colour of thread. The thread becomes the pen line. You can construct shape and form and by "hatching" the sewen thread like you would a pen you can build textures and detail like you would to an image. I have this idea. That colour, does not play a part in the action of drawing, and that colour may can separate drawing from painting in that, in painting, you premix the paint for it to be applied to the media. In drawing any form of colour comes from layering the medium, using a red pencil on blue makes a visually purple shade but actually they still remain two different colours and it is our eyesight blending the two.

Within my sewing using two different coloured threads like two different coloured pens or pencils does not result in a coloured image or an embroidered piece of work. Afterall this was just "a sketch" But what showed up when the piece i was working with was held up to the light was a happy and interesting accident.

 Now, I hate drawing faces, I dont feel i have a "style" or anything distinct from another artist who makes faces. But from my use of some plastic sheeting that was laying around the thread behind it casts a slight shadow and almost like construction lines to any drawing. I hate drawing noses, But i quite like what happened in this doodle.
So yet again the brain began to buzz and tick...

Here is my idea. When you draw with any medium, pen, pencil, ink, chalk etc... The drawing is created by making a mark onto a surface you rely on the friction between the two to transferr the ink, graphite and so on, to the suface of whatever your using. What if you could draw in air, Draw in space?

Obviously you can use a torch and a camera to record some light drawing but you need a camera to hold the image for the world to see... That and you need specific camera settings and good timing. Its something i intend to try out at a later date however, My thought is. If you could pull the line of ink from a pen, would it be rectangular and thin or circular and more like a tube?

Id prefer to think of it as a tube, Although it may be impossible for now to hold a line of ink in space It did get me thinking. And i have another concept i aim to try and experiment with soon.

But my concept was pushed further when i began thinking of the line as a more three dimensional tube. To reflect this, i thought of wire, tubing, steel cord and the suchlike. But It all seemed to drift about in my head until i sat outside in the garden and looked around.

 I noticed a thread laid on the ground, clearly from a rope toy my dog had mauled. A 3Dimensional line into a form or shape and laid down.

 And another thread, Blown up to a window sill and caught into a spider web, suspended and lifted from the ground and surface, from its media. To show its shape... This is what settled down what a 3Dimensional line of ink could become. If you pulled a line from a pen and had it suspended in mid air This is what it could be.

And by bloody heck, i need to experiment and progress with this brain buzzing idea.