A Page from the #DrawingPapers Archive This page from Drawing Papers 107 features Study for Tiger Fish (Fish in Jellyfish 2 8/30/11), a #gouache on black paper sketch created by #AlexisRockman in 2011. The 2014 exhibition Alexis Rockman: Drawings from the Life of Pi featured Rockman’s #watercolor drawings that were created for the first stage in the development of the fantastical, imaginary world of #LifeofPi, the 2012 Academy-Award winning feature film directed by Ang Lee. Lee sought out Rockman’s vision as an artist with a specific commitment to hand drawing to bring a human scale to the project - a sense of the material, and the unexpected that would result, for example, out of the random bloom of watercolor pigment on paper. Though most artistic contributions to cinema are dependent on photo-realism or cartoon-like illustration, Rockman’s images are fluid, intimate, and dynamic in a way only available to drawing. The Drawing Papers are a series of publications documenting The Dr...