Comic pages, inked and painted

2024-07

Comic pages, inked and painted, 2024 — picture by Ray Patrick

ROTC

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Subject

Two finished comic pages photographed side by side on the desk, taped at the edges — one still in black and white, one carried through to full colour. Both are built from stacked panels of caricatured hosts, and the coloured page has one of them at a microphone under an ROTC Radio logo with an ice cream gag running through it.

Composition

The photograph sets the two pages against each other so the same drawing is seen at two stages, the inked sheet at the left and the painted one at the right, overlapping at the centre.

Palette

The coloured page runs turquoise, coral and lemon through the panels against the plain black and white of its twin, with blue masking tape framing both.

Handling

Watercolour laid flat over finished ink, inside ruled panel borders. Tape holds the edges clean, and the photograph is the record of the pair rather than of either one.

Medium and support

Watercolour and ink on paper, photographed in the studio.

Signature

Each page carries the artist's name within the lower panel.

From the artist:

A few comic pages… Watercolor. Please retweet and follow, cause I'm traditional and these people are in it.