Clippers Drawing

Here’s the third of the 6 designs for my MT Museum of Art & Culture mural, “The Artist’s Tool Belt”. These are the Clippers & Grippers. I already know that on the final design, one of these will be replaced. I’m also including a shot of my drawing space as this image progressed. Above the final one, you can see 4 other variations on the theme. I thought I was going to do a design using the handles, but that didn’t work. Then I thought I’d try the whole tool, both pointing up and pointing down. I’m so old-school, and the whole point of this exercise is so much HAND tools, you can see that I actually drew the tools, cut them out, taped them down in different orders, then traced them onto the final drawings. I think these days, anybody else would have done that digitally. Not me.