Chuck Close scribble etching

 Red

 Blue

 Orange

 Green

Dark Blue

 Pink

 Light Blue

 Yellow Orange

 Dark Green

 Black

 Black again

Chuck Close 18"x 24" color pencil 09/10

"Close's "game" with color is exacting and demanding, requiring a knowledge of the optical effects of color mixing that is virtually unparalleled in the history of art. He is able to achieve, in his work, to seemingly contradictory goals at once. On the one hand, his work is fully representational. On the other, it is fully abstract, even nonobjective in its purely formal interest in color. Close has it both way."

The above text is a excerpt from a magazine on Close's latest works in progress. This is my first attempt at scribble etching, instead of interchanging between primary colors all at once. You lay down different layers one after another after another. First, I started off with red, then blue, orange and so on till the final color, black. The technique used is simply scribbles built up on more scribbles. Definitely more pieces with this technique to come.