Edi Patterson has saved me from having my first published piece of artwork be a drawing of a penis, and for that, I am grateful.
We have met on Zoom to talk about her work on The Righteous Gemstones, the HBO dark comedy in which Patterson is a perpetual scene-stealer as Judy Gemstone. At Patterson’s suggestion, we’re doing an adapted version of a common improv warm-up exercise. One of us will start off a drawing with a line, and the other will respond with her own. We’ll decide as a duo when the drawing is done, and then we’ll take turns naming the piece, one letter at a time, until we reach a title.
We’re both new to the Aggie.io app, which allows us to draw on a shared canvas from opposite sides of the country, but Patterson’s movements are fluid, and she’s focused. She…
