This page in the Red Book was interesting not only because it was mostly blank but because the part that was printed had such a strong piece of text to react to.
As I’ve said before, my primary reason for working in a printed book like this is the “active ground” of each page. There’s always something there that provokes a response. The response might be erasure or highlight depending on the page.
I was also trying some new materials here and some infrequent techniques. My partner Gayla tipped me to using oil sticks on vellum as a transfer paper. We recently purchased some luxurious R&F drawing oils and I got a highly pigmented orange that you can see in this drawing as transferred scribbles and rough grids.