Month: December 2006

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Mountain Scene New Zealand – from Waiau Pass

Waiau

#193 From Waiau

I did about a weeks walking up and over Waiau Pass in the South Island a few years a go. Here is a painterly landscape.

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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A3+, 33 cm x 48 cm archival paper. The image size is 35.5 cm x 25.5 cm. The next available print is: 1/25

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Cat and a Tablet PC

#192 Ego & Tablet

I copied this one from a photo on Tabletology a blog about tablet PCs by Olga and Lynette with a nice feel, & cats & dogs.

I think the cat is called Ego, and I have no idea what sort of tablet it is, maybe a TC1100?

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This print is in a limited edition of 25 Giclée prints on A4, 21 cm x 29.7 cm archival paper. The image size is 17.5 cm x 12.5 cm. The next available print is: 1/25

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Phone – simple icon sketch – blind contour

I have practiced these for a few hours in the last day or two. Ties in with my Signature post. Notice this is one line and I did it with my eyes shut. It is a sort of blind contour. I particularly like the way some artists have developed the ability to do this – Picasso with his doves (see my earlier post) and John Lennon did it with his autograph:

John Lennon Imagine .

I can only do very few images in this blind way… I think developing a repertoire of these “autopix” will help my flow.

It you have a scrawl like you can do blind like this, comment below, it would be good to see a bunch of them.

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Scarlett Sleeping

#190 Scarlett Sleeping

Another, finally in my Dylan Video series. This one I have done and deleted about 50 times.

I listened to a Kim Hill interview with Mike Nesmith once of the Monkeys. It is a good long discussion about creativity. Worth listening to. One thing he discusses its how he is fine about revisions, forever!

I might need that to get this one right. Bennett Miller – who directed “Capote” reputedly made the video, wonderfully captured. I will make more in this series from the video.

Related

A category in my blog: Sketches based on Kill Bill movies

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Signature

I am thinking about the desire of the project & the desire of the line (to quote Matisse). Something in the marks that is essential, that has a life of its own. What is that? We want to get a glimpse of the real thing beyond the shadows in Plato’s cave. We are channels for a deeper truth if we can just get out of the way. It is something we can’t attain, but it keeps calling or pulling.

And there is something else.

The marks express unique personal identity. If I can get out of my own way I will come through. Unexpectedly I like my #184 Stuff on my Desk because it has me in it & I was hardly there, just doodling as an afterthought. It has my emerging signature – I don’t mean my name, but something that resonates with my inner fingerprint.

I had a conversation with Kate recently about signature, how as teenagers we “practice our signature”, a paradox totally suited to adolescence. Is that signature being invented, or discovered? The latter I think. Which then had me reflecting on that crucial teen-age time in my life, late 50s. I was drawing and painting a bit, though never with formal instruction, except in technical drawing. I really craved to belong to the art class but would not let myself feel that… and that was not all that was suppressed. I suppressed my signature.

Right now I am wanting to find that scrawl, which will shine, because it is gets closer & closer to …

And here is the point that is motivating this post…

… to the personal essence that is also there, in the same place beyond the shadows in the cave.
The subject & artist share one true nature.

Related:

Janey’s post.

An earlier post of mine: Thousand Sketches & Signatures

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