I’ve been waiting for a warm sunny day to do this… draw tree bark. And utility poles. Blow them up and do fine pen drawings, just for the textures.
Tag: Art
#479
Texture & Planes. 4″x 4″ Metalpoint: silver & copper, ink wash, acrylic white. Experimenting on how I want to use this medium.
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#478
This is what I see as after image, working on those textured drawings.
17″x 14″ India ink wash, Higgins water soluble brown on Bristol, Sakura .01 and Crow Quill. Fine as it is, the Sakura is too blunt to use stippling. Nothing like a crow quill.
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Drawing Found Things
I’ve posted before on how important drawing is for me (HERE, and HERE). It’s an exercise, what a pianist might do when no one is listening. Sometimes I’ll set a drawing aside, as something worth keeping, but mostly, I put the sketch books on a shelf when they’re full, or in a portfolio in a closet. Seldom look at them again.
It’s not about “representation;” they are exercises in seeing: in double vision–seeing what is there, and seeing, and translating that to what I see within. It’s what I see within that matters. I like to draw things with textures: tree bark, rocks, broken pavement. Here is a photo of some things I found on a walk yesterday, and a drawing I made from them. The scanner did a poor job of catching the detail; pencil doesn’t take as well as ink. When I’m working with crow-quill, or a new Sacura .01 ultrafine pen, … I can spend hours at this… like meditation.
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#477 Seated Figure
17″x 14″ Charcoal, acrylic, pastel 5th in this series. Not quite what I wanted… but close enough to give me an idea of where I’m heading. (a better photo than what I posted yesterday)
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#476 Something Left Was Red
17″x 14″ Mixed Media: Charcoal, Ink, Acrylic, Collage on Bristol Paper. This makes the 4th in this series. I like the sense of depth I get from the multiple layers. Laying down areas of charcoal, rubbing over to blur the lines, create gray areas, than dark lines on top of that, repeating, than brushing in white acrylic. In the 3rd piece, (#475) I tore up a photo of women factory workers from early in the 20th Century, glued them to the sheet of paper, and worked around and over them. The curled edges added greatly to that sense of depth. In the piece below, I glued on some pieces of a water color that I thought had failed, but it didn’t work. I had to cover almost all of it over, leaving just a hint of color. I added some red to draw attention to it and give the piece a focal point.
I have 11 more sheets of paper in that pad. I don’t know that I’ll end up with 15 of them, but I’ll keep working along these lines until I feel like I’m repeating myself… as long as I can keep them evolving. They make a strong impression, lined up together on the wall.
The titles are just words I find running through my head as I’m working.
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#475 The Curtain Torn We See!
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17″x 14″ The Curtain Torn, We See! Mixed media, charcoal, acrylic, collage on Bristol paper.
#474 Here Once A Man
#473 Where Dreams Lie Buried
17″x 14″ Charcoal, acrylic, ink, on 100 lb Bristol paper.
I was playing with charcoal… liked how rubbing it off, adding new marks, rubbing through, scratching lines–how repeating this gave a feeling of depth, emergence. White acrylic further enhanced this.
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