New Hooked Wool Drawings

2014 #17, hand dyed wool and egg tempera on linen, 15 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.

Recently when I've worked on studies for a new group of hooked wool drawings, my thoughts ran in themes: last time it was lines, this time circles and curved forms.  Half-circles balance......

2014 #18,  hand dyed wool and egg tempera on linen, 17 x 15 in. 

.....and a circle rests (rolling?) on a line.

2014 #19,  hand dyed wool and egg tempera on linen, 18 x 17 in. 

Ovals push outward, with positive and negative spaces flipped.

2014 #20,  hand dyed wool and egg tempera on linen, 15 x 12 in. 

In #20, as in #19, the space between has the weight of hooked wool, and the shapes––"racetrack" (oval with straight lines, and partial circles––are thin paint. Is there something a little uncomfortable with this reversal? I'm not sure.