
, Drawing Friday , 28 February 2025 Erasers , rubbers and scrapers Using a razor blade to erase parts of an ink drawing on Bristol Board I have devoted several posts to various drawing mediums and suggested that their medium specificity was something you need to explore if you need to think about the full range of expression available to you . However except for a brief mention of erasers in my post on the pencil I haven't given much time or thought to the importance of erasure techniques . So perhaps its now time to address . this Erasure is of course also a conceptual idea and just as there are a variety of technical ways to remove the marks made to construct a drawing , there are just as many theoretical implications as to why we might erase and what the activity itself might mean . In