beirt chailíní sa tigh tae / two girls in the tea house

This one is better.

My website includes a lot of content on linguistics and language learning so I do many images illustrating the four language skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing.

gaoluinn.altervista.org/livemocha/01A/Ch01C-sentences.html

The white on black technique is probably the one thing that I think really emerges from making these images with markers rather than another drawing medium.

But the fact that I choose to render what I see using only black and white does indeed bring about a puzzle of problems with any drawing.

I have chosen to leave out any background detail because it would just clutter the main message of this piece-- two people having a conversation. The linguistic content of the page where this image will appear is better served by simplicity. Still, having the sparse suggestion of a table, a glass and a straw is enough to tell exactly where this conversation is taking place. I make no claim to be minimalist, but this image does need to serve the overall communicated message of the page it was made for.

To further extend a statement once made by Will Eisner: Line art, by its very nature of exaggeration and simplification is a form of expressionism.

12 May 2016

10 3/8 x 3 3/4 inches faber castel markers on bristol board

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Taken on: May 12, 2016

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