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Hidden, and notes about process & digital sketching

Hidden, and notes about process & digital sketching

I have been reluctant to post these, scary.

I began the abstract sketches in the next bunch while exploring settings in Corel Painter X, so they come somewhat unbidden, yet I am more interested in what comes than the techniques I am using. I do learn, and will soon have a few more favourite “brushes” and “papers” and “media”. I want to honour what simply emerges.

Digital art can have such high production values, focussed on technique and rendering and illustration, especially of scifi & fantasy that the format has a look that Kate called stilted, that was the word I was looking for but found it hard to find as technique and skill are often high, and admirable. I’ll post up some explorations of digital art by others that I like, that’d be good!

For now here are my scratchy sketches. Sketches are a slight, light step to something else, their life is seen in the context of their journey.

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Highly individuated – poorly integrated

Highly individuated – poorly integrated

I am not even sure if “Highly individuated – poorly integrated” is a real possibility in the psychological sense, but it is the phrase that came with this doodling, and it seems to fit. It fits because if it is anything more than exploring various techniques I am not aware of it. Rather unpleasant figures crop up occasionally, I’ll just keep looking. See also: Memory.

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Trees

Trees

We spent a couple of days in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Again we saw heaps of wildlife & I wanted to develop further the pastel trees I did earlier. But I don’t think this a development in the right direction. More to do.

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Lantana – sketchblogging, inner stirrings, paint & inspiration

Lantana – sketchblogging, inner stirrings, paint & inspiration

I think that is what is is called, it is among these that the body is found in the movie Lantana (Great Movie)

This is the last one from the Sydney trip in this batch, we now move on to horses a week later in New Zealand – that is the trouble with mt journalling here – I can’t just post up as I go, just too busy. So the journal is all out of chronological order.

Never mind. Even if the chronology is messy there is are journeys running through this year of the sketch:

  • Lots in New Zealand & Christchurch
  • Some trips to Wellington
  • Christmas I did a real sketch trip to Aoraki – Mt. Cook, this was a good warmup to more travel sketching
  • Then Napier, but just did not manage to sketch much at all – too much NZAP Conference work.
  • Australia for a week, late March 2007, beaches, bush, cityscapes, flowers & wildlife – more to catch up on.

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The sketchblogging is important to me, I like it & will keep going with it post TS.

The recent line & wash suits that – a sort of sketchbook style.

It will stand me in good stead as I go to San Francisco and New York in July, August.

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I feel something new coming up though. More focus on something within combined with more explorations of paint, digital paint.

What follows are a few samples of the sort of painting by others I am enjoying . Inspiration – other people’s work follows:

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