Category: Artists

Other peoples work I discuss and find interesting.

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Paris

Reading a book, A Writer’s Paris, by Eric Maisel

I bought it because I like the sketches by Danny Gregory but the book is lovely in its tone. It is totally relevant for me at this moment – substitute sketching for writing (unless you call this writing) and Paris for anywhere and it is the right book for me now!

It is helpful on such things as discipline & freedom, getting in the mood, how to get unstuck. I think Eric Maisel is a psychotherapist & he sounds like a good one to me!

Ordered his book on San Francisco on Amazon.

Sketches by Danny Gregory follow for Inspiration
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James McNeill Whistler

#363 Whistler
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This is from a painting of him as a young man, which was then shown in a movie, made into a video, snapped off my TV with a camera and then sketched by me.

Great video, great painter.

Wikipedia on Whistler with plenty of images, including the one this sketch is from! I just noticed. But I used a photo I took!

Whistlers Mother

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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 Purchase Print

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Image of the painting this is from follows.

Inspiration

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Paula Rego – Painter

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This is from an image of Paula Rego from a video. I loved seeing her work & story in that film. What I learnt was that paintings could be very like a Psychodrama – with multiple time frames and scenes that deal with & resolve the past. Surplus reality as Moreno called it. Maybe that is on the agenda here, but then again the whole of Thousand Sketches is a Psychodrama – look at the previous post for example.

This portrait was consciously influenced by Alex Katz work, who I blogged recently. In the post about him are a lot of images – I have not looked at them since I made that post – there is something for me to learn from him.

I have also been inspired by Laura of LauraLines who is working on a project to do 101 faces.

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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 Purchase Print

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This post has my sketch above & what follows are 2 images I snapped from the video, and more from the net.

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Playing Pollock 1

#306 Playing Pollock 1
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This and the next few were done using a really funny flash animated tool on the web: Here Have a go! I confess, in the past, having some disdain for splashing paint as Pollock did. That changed in two steps. One was seeing an original in the Dunedin art gallery about 5 years go. It was quite a small painting and the texture was created with small splashes. The painting was subtle and finely executed, notions I would not have associated with Pollock through my media fed ignorance. The second thing was the Ed Harris movie. Maybe he was more unlikeable in real life, and his wife may be more instrumental in the development of the form than portrayed, but the one thing I love & it is shown well in the movie, was the way he danced his paintings into life, he moved with grace, Ed Harris took years to learn that for the film.

So, here are a few playfully splashed, using the Flash toy. Thanks to whoever made the software.

 

 

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Love Me Tender

#0258 Love Me Tender
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On the way I stopped at the Ashburton Art Gallery to see the Llew Summers collection. Good to do, an impressive variety of New Zealand art. Outside the gallery in the part were two Llew Summers sculptures – this one and Butterfly, the names and the moods are tender and fragile, the sculpted people are very heavy & round yet they capture the moods they portray well.

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Quote from Jorge Luis Borges

I am back from the Mt. Cook trip and will put up stuff soon, but before those mountain pictures I though this was a pertinent quote.

A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.

From here – more about Borges. here

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