Category: My Art

#505

5″ x 5″ Silverpoint, gouache highlights, on clayboard. I see where this is going… picked up a free copy of Gray’s Anatomy. (Click to Zoom!) Thinking–histology, microscopic structures of cell and tissues. I mean, really–look at these!
First art I was paid for–microscopic studies my professor in an embryology class had me do for him. Crow quill pen… all stippling. Took me forever, for $5.00 each.
It just occurred to me that THIS is what I was responding to in the patters I saw in broken pavement (HERE for instance).

#505 Silverpoint

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Things I like to draw

DSCN0356 Drawing things I like to draw tree bark

Drawing demands attention. I like to draw because it teaches me how to see. I know I’ve said that before, but I can’t emphasize enough how important that is to me.

I want art to be, not about making pretty things, but about vision. How to see, actively, creatively. I look for what most people wouldn’t see, and if they did, see without attention. Seeing–without opening the heart to wonder, without catching what we see in the webs of memory.  Here are some of the things I like to draw. (I encourage you to click and zoom in on these for detail.)

Things to draw asphalt pavement Asphalt pavement & peeling billboard

Things to draw bilboard

Things to draw tree root Tree root.

Things to draw utility pole 2 Things to draw utility pole Utility poles.

#504 Silverpoint

7″ x 5.5″ … with washed out water color. I draw the color, then hold it under running water… work the silverpoint into and around the remaining patterns. I used water soluble Neo-Color crayons… they take to the ground better than brushing wet water colors on and leave a texture that is caught by the silverpoint, and shading over them darkens the underlying color, as though the silverpoint itself were colored. Something to explore…
#504 Silverpoint

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