E Marshall lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. E’s work skips across many mediums and materials. Currently they are producing large drawings and paintings on paper. The joy of making marks is the driving force behind E’s work and it surfs on the boundary between memory and identity as it relates to the physical, drawn surface.

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I am dipping my toe into the world of digital drawings. I have been experimenting with the Procreate ap on an i pad with an Apple pencil.

It was very overwhelming at first. Unlimited color, unlimited texture, and the ability to zoom in and zoom out but always drawing on the same size pad. It feels completely different than my sketchbook. I can draw on a new axis. I can create a separate layer and draw BEHIND my marks which has allowed me to make new decisions and work through color choices faster.

I am trying to find my hand and technique in this alien media while maintaining a digital feel. I don’t want these to pose as something they are not.

Digital drawings seemed like a bad Idea. They also seemed like a good idea. I am trying to find the happy place. Drawing the sky digitally feels satisfying and infinite in a funny way.

I like that I never have to make a hard decision on a piece. I can duplicate it and go both directions. The path can diverge infinitely.