Walter Logeman Art Project 2006-7
Not the last go I will have at the Empire State or the New York skyline. This little portal to the icon was just across the road from where I stayed.
Interesting name now I think of it. Empire State – were they neo-cons back then who wanted to dominate the world?
This one was from a dream. This one is more or less as dreamt it, I dreamt it as a painting I needed to do. I have a few variations I worked with I might put them up later.
I think Edward Hopper had defined American diners. I certainly though of his one while I ate here late one night. I think it was called the Empire Café.
Night Life (from NY):
Hardly night life I had, other than going to nice places at night for a meal.
I am back after a 24 hour flight.
On the plane I did a lot of reflecting about where to with the sketches. And it is interesting to post this one that I had already done. Read on.
One thing is that I now want to return to the local, that makes sense. I also want to work with the memories and the thousands of photos from San Francisco and New York. I’ll do both. So that is content.
From a process point of view here is the idea I had on the plane: Make the abstracts more figurative and the figurative more abstract. Bring it all together. Integrate.
And a little further than that too, I have drawn a hard line for myself: No real media till the project is done. Now as I come closer to the 1000 I am thinking real media more and more. Here is the move I am plotting: Explore a greater variety of paper. For example use pastel papers for the pastels. Perhaps use the background colours for the digital ones here and then explore printing with that layer removed on the appropriate medium.
Use the larger formats more, perhaps for canvas but also board and for A2 sheets of watercolor board etc.
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The thought was there a matter of hours ago, and now posting this I see I was already, more unconsciously integrating various styles.
I have put this in the Abstract category and also in Cafes. I have not done that before.
And yes this is in the New York and the New Zealand category. It is process and Sketchblog. Things are coming together.
In the midst of doing a bit of editing out I saw this emerge, and accentuated it.
I am in LAX and boarding is about to happen! I have more to post, but at least got to 700!
Kept going with portraits. An all ink one using image from magazine.
I got into a portrait mood and needed someone to sketch. I look a bit severe, if I look like me at all, straight out of the mirror.
First a sketch, then some art talk.
This is from a self portrait. She looks young. I like Lee Krasner. She is of course well known and associated with Pollock, and I have a sense that they were together able to become as creative as they were. Relationships count. Unfortunately she is not as easy to spot around as Pollock. I hope I have bought out her strength in this sketch. I loved what I saw of her work at MoMA though. I have some shots I can add later.
I splashed out & bought a beautiful catalogue of a recent exhibition of her later work. I think it is about the best thing I bought on this trip. Found it in a secondhand book shop in Brooklyn.
More talk & Images follow.
