Showing posts with label creatures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creatures. Show all posts
Friday, September 5, 2008
Day 46: 28 July 2008
I finally figured out what the heck is wrong with my spelling. I keep making crazy mistakes on my pictures and I suspect it’s not right but I am at a complete loss as to how to fix it in that moment. This flies in the face not only of my education but also my professional life and my work experience…..well basically my capability. So yesterday, once again staring down the face of another error, I finally get it. I am so far into a right brain mode at that moment that my left brain language/writing capability is basically non-existent. Throw in a good dose of fatigue and you have this performance. OK….I’m good with that.
Day 50: 1 August 2008
The End. 50 pages, 50 days is done. What a great experience. I would advise anyone now to take a journey like this, especially if you like surprises and self-discovery.
Now what? Well I was thinking as I neared the final few days that I would have to “get back” to other artwork now. Much to my surprise, yet another surprise, I thought of what else I might have done in this time. I listed four small watercolour paintings and near completion of an 18 x 22 watercolour Frothy Tiger Moth painting. In addition, I finished one roll of colour film, one roll of bl/wh, processed and catalogued the images from four rolls in total, and shot and catalogued about 100 digital shots. I printed in final, four flower 8 x 10 colour prints and three art cards. I also practised architect lettering and researched four other fonts to practice for hand lettering. I learned to make and use my own brushes in Photoshop. I learned to create a blog and post to Flickr. I have also finished my research and decision making on the flower type for a 5 ft. by 6ft. fabric art which is midway. I have reviewed some of my initial design work for a book of poetry a friend wishes me to illustrate and pushed my thinking to the next percolation way station. I finished reading the lion’s share of The Pen and Ink Book by Jos A. Smith and Illustration by J. Morgan . I also finished Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins and began Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I read two PhotoShop magazines, an Art Review and a Bl/Wh Special Edition. Then there’s all the web stuff. I wrote a short story. I have a job which is 40+ hours a week, Mary Ellen’s cancer care, an aging dog with mega allergies, family and friends, and a three story Victorian house which I had painted during this time.
So reading this list, I have decided to take the afternoon off….well maybe… LOL.
I bought two new sketch books three days ago to get ready for the next leg of the journey. What I would really like to do is to practice with various materials and see what I can do with that. I want to fully understand my pens and the lines I can get out of them. I want to better understand paper. Vacation is coming and I want to do a 22 x32 drawing of some type of animal with an intricately decorated skin. I also want to paint an acrylic rendering of a friend’s dog who died this spring. I would love to finish the Frothy Moth and the fabric art. I also want to carve some more on a large lino landscape. I want to post the entire 50 days, 50 pages to my blog. I want to learn to use painterly strokes overlaid on bl/wh photos I have taken and possibly consider that for some silk screen. I am dying to create some highly textured stone columns for the garden and to lay into the grass the cement leave stepping stones I created last year.
Now what? Well I was thinking as I neared the final few days that I would have to “get back” to other artwork now. Much to my surprise, yet another surprise, I thought of what else I might have done in this time. I listed four small watercolour paintings and near completion of an 18 x 22 watercolour Frothy Tiger Moth painting. In addition, I finished one roll of colour film, one roll of bl/wh, processed and catalogued the images from four rolls in total, and shot and catalogued about 100 digital shots. I printed in final, four flower 8 x 10 colour prints and three art cards. I also practised architect lettering and researched four other fonts to practice for hand lettering. I learned to make and use my own brushes in Photoshop. I learned to create a blog and post to Flickr. I have also finished my research and decision making on the flower type for a 5 ft. by 6ft. fabric art which is midway. I have reviewed some of my initial design work for a book of poetry a friend wishes me to illustrate and pushed my thinking to the next percolation way station. I finished reading the lion’s share of The Pen and Ink Book by Jos A. Smith and Illustration by J. Morgan . I also finished Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins and began Moby Dick by Herman Melville. I read two PhotoShop magazines, an Art Review and a Bl/Wh Special Edition. Then there’s all the web stuff. I wrote a short story. I have a job which is 40+ hours a week, Mary Ellen’s cancer care, an aging dog with mega allergies, family and friends, and a three story Victorian house which I had painted during this time.
So reading this list, I have decided to take the afternoon off….well maybe… LOL.
I bought two new sketch books three days ago to get ready for the next leg of the journey. What I would really like to do is to practice with various materials and see what I can do with that. I want to fully understand my pens and the lines I can get out of them. I want to better understand paper. Vacation is coming and I want to do a 22 x32 drawing of some type of animal with an intricately decorated skin. I also want to paint an acrylic rendering of a friend’s dog who died this spring. I would love to finish the Frothy Moth and the fabric art. I also want to carve some more on a large lino landscape. I want to post the entire 50 days, 50 pages to my blog. I want to learn to use painterly strokes overlaid on bl/wh photos I have taken and possibly consider that for some silk screen. I am dying to create some highly textured stone columns for the garden and to lay into the grass the cement leave stepping stones I created last year.
So, off I go...it's exciting.....
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Day 38: 21 July 2008
Definitely one of my favorite drawings (and perhaps the elephants) ..... and one of my favorite dogs of all time....Day 40: 23 July 2008
AHA! Miss Finnie! You dance in my dreams from your lofty perch on the Rainbow Bridge!Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Day 24: 7 July 2008
Aaaaahha.....This is profoundly satisfying....like coming home after a trip....Something happened along the road of the fifty in and around 23. Suddenly, I had an intense awareness of this thing called my mind’s eye. The thing that I was looking at to draw had become something very much inside my head and my understanding of it was beyond just the looking at it I had always done. Now I could see/feel the planes, the curves, the lines, the shadow, the texture and all of this melded together into a beingness which swirled around like delicious chocolate swirls throughout the caramel cream of my mind. It all flowed out of me like topping to the page.
Day 25: 8 July 2008
.....and more I shall have.....Since I was a very small child, I have been fascinated with insects and have had a deep deep love of all animals. I have spent many hours in my life drawing and painting all manner of insects and in more recent years quite a host of frogs. I always own a dog or two and periodically have a cat move in with me. Right now, Animal Planet hums somewhere off in the background, something in this house which is on constantly. I collect pictures of them and spend hours reproducing them. I am very happy doing this.
Day 26: 9 July 2008
...and more.....These fifty pages are now about creating in bl/wh and using ink. They have turned themselves into a rebellious journey of, “This is what I want to do damn it!” Not this is what I should do. It all sounds very straightforward doesn’t it? Realization and acceptance are slow. They come after doing. For someone like myself this is always the hard lesson. I want to think it through first, understand, realize and then act.
Day 28: 11 July 2008
I am picking up momentum now and loving it......
I got that AHA! spark thing that happens. I was thinking about why bl/wh has drawn me in so much as I have always described myself as a colourist. I remembered how satisfying lino has been over the last year and just working in bl/wh. Suddenly, I saw the fifty as fodder for a lino series and I got really excited…..
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Day 13: 26 June 2008
Repeatedly throughout these pages you will see references to fatigue...my biggest nemesis....
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