"I'm a fan of Booth and have always loved his drawings, but for an artist, a patch of white paper is like a red flag to a bull," Gurney told me by phone.
It's titled "Joy of Living," though there isn't much joy evident in this moody, unkempt concoction of smudged ink, nervy doodles and perspectival geometry, punctuated by a scrap cut from a military map and a sprinkling of curious red stains on a patch of white paper, like blood seeping through a bandage.
If a gray patch of paper is placed on a black background, it looks whiter than it did before; if placed on a white background, it looks darker.
Go back to the beginning of the scale, and draw just a circle, or a square, so you've got a patch of pure white paper inside it.
Concealed on an Elizabethan map of the east coast of North America, but now identified by the British Museum, is a clue to the colony's location drawn in what appears to be invisible ink, further disguised by a barely-discernible patch of paper glued to it.
Rather than laying a patch of white down over your wall paper or wooden table, WhiteyPaint will simply leave a glossy finish to those surfaces, ready to write on in just half a day.
The pull-out couch has become a storage area (when the dog is not using it as his bed) and is so covered with books and papers that barely a patch of upholstery shows.
7. A pad of 50 paper place mats with a photograph of a patch of green grass (weeds included) is $20.
They were never "improved" or prettified, although sometimes a patch of bright color might sing out from the matchboxes or scraps of found paper from the post office.
