Posted in Figure studio sketches on January 29, 2007 | 3 Comments »
More of the newsprint figure sketches from Thursday night. With these I noticed an interaction with the words which began to tell a story.
Some of the printed words that work with the above image:
“Let the public speak - choices - gender politics - quake preparation”
She seems to be standing up to [...]
Posted in Figure studio sketches on January 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
It can get a little old, doing pencil and charcoal sketches of nudes for years. THat’s where the idea for newspaper came in. It makes a fascinating surface. So I slathered some paper with mat medium and glued on sheets of newsprint to take with me to Thursday night figure studio. It’s [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on January 24, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I was wondering how I might make the paper look ancient, like an old scroll or cave wall. From that thought to how when we mine for creative ideas, they come from somewhere. How many former generations are alive in us today? And these ideas, as they come poking out and onto our paper, [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on January 23, 2007 | 4 Comments »
If you have a hen more remarkable than mine, will you wait to tell me about it another time? 5 eggs in 5 days! her first ever!
If there’s anything more wonderful than finding that perfect warm golden brown offering each morning, then I don’t want to hear just now.
It means that nature is working, [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on January 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Just for fun. You guessed it. Helen Mirren. If I have only a few minutes I just sketch whatever I think are the most salient details and leave out the rest. The mind can fill in the rest for me.
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on January 19, 2007 | 2 Comments »
If you hooked me up to one of those brain wave readers, I don’t imagine you would’ve found much left hemisphere activity on this one. I even let the words pop up unbidden from “the fathomless present moment”, so I’m not sure how much sense they make. Still working with my pile of [...]
Posted in Figurative Abstracts on January 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Still cutting and pasting, and in need of a sketch-fix. These guys were in an article I didn’t even read. Cutting up the article suited my purposes better. Look at the creepy green face. I love it! Green is such a rule breaking color when it comes to faces. [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on January 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So much of art making is about throwing together random things/ideas and allowing connections to get made. Look through a well designed magazine and see how the ads are constructed. I was doing that yesterday and decided to just start clipping random pieces out. But first I had to shut up the [...]
Posted in Contemplative Sketchbooks on January 13, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been reading about the cave paintings of shamans and wanted to see if I could get that “ancient” timeless effect. Starting with sand mixed with gel medium for texture, floating acrylic on top, some watercolor crayon, etc.
Shamans travel to different levels of experience on a time-space continuum of overlapping realities. As I [...]
Posted in Everyday Sketches on January 12, 2007 | 4 Comments »
No news really, just a chicken on newsprint. I’ve been playing around with newsprint collage lately. Glued a piece of the classified section onto an illustration board with mat medium, then sketched and painted a chicken on it with gouache and gesso for their opacity along with some liquid acrylic. Just a [...]
