Walter Logeman Art Project 2006-7
A dozen images follow that I will leave “Unnamed†for now, I might name some or others might find a name somehow.
I am interested in naming. Sometimes I do it more in the sense of “working titlesâ€, to save the file & make it easier to find. Not that is not the same as giving it a name, and I will have no compunction about retrospectively naming images. Not ones that are already in an edition though.
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Another in my series from the Kill Bill movie.
It seems fun to do images from movies, I was tempted to do some from “Taxi Driver†which I saw for the first time & quite enjoyed, but wanted to return to the Kill Bill series for sake of fullness & completion (loaded words I notice as I write this … as will be evident in a post still to come – see image #450)
As I post this, but days after I sketched this sketch, I am reading Matthew Collings “This is Modern Art”, an entry about Elizabeth Peyton. She paints images of “The Stars†she says:
I like people who are glamorous because they’re wilful & talented & they can make beautiful things. I think that is what gives them a very special beauty.â€
In so far as I do “stars†both from the movies & artists (as does Elizabeth Peyton) there is some agreement with her, but for me it is more about “Truth†than beauty. By the time the image reaches Thousand Sketches it has been in the hands of all the people you see on the credits of the movie, it is a social collaboration, and then I take a picture, and then I select an image from the 100s I take, and then I sketch & delete & select again. I think this is a form of mythologising, of distilling, of searching for the archetypal.
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I spent a lot of time trying painterly versions of this, pastel versions, and then, unsatisfied, did a quick ink & wash which was the better.
I dreamt a leader had died. Not tragically, but in the right sort of way. Perhaps he was an artist or a Psychodrama director. There was a ceremony with many who were intimately connected. In the dream I was given a clear image to sketch of the man who died, and this reproduces it fairly well.
Pastel because I clicked on the pastels. Colour black. You can see the way pastel shows up on different “paper”, yes bits are on different paper, virtually possible.
I think the influence here is listening to Bob Dylan’s Theme Hour XMRario show.
It is the last sentence that qualifies this as a sketchblog post.
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It does lay it on a bit thick. I changed the paper to a dark tone and then dampened down the hue… anyway here it is.
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Later, while looking at the previous two images, which were done independently, but within minutes of each other I noticed a conjunction of form… so I pasted one on the other. Then “enhanced” the ink layer as I needed to soften the background it was on.
Fun to do.
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#0430 Figure
The previous layer led to this sketch. The figure was already there & I derw it our with my favourite pen & ink.
Later: Tuesday 17 April
The previous post went to the ether so here is the image: Gold a monochromatic layer.
#429 Gold
I did this one thinking might form the basis for something else. But it is a sort of sketch in its own right, emerging out of the earlier ones.