Serious Relatonships and Art.
Serious Relationships and Art
So I wake up at 5:20, eat a can of stewed tomatoes, two tablespoons of flax oil, and off to work I go. We're closed to the public on Mondays, but our offices are open for business. I grabbed the nearest piece of paper (printer paper), whipped a pencil out of my shirt pocket, and threw down the fist net of composition/shape-searching lines for an aforesaid commission (a few blogs a go if memory serves).
Serious drawings often start like romances: unexpected, effortless, slipshod. Usually as rough drafts or exercises which show some unusual flicker of promise, become overdeveloped, and are in a blink the real thing. Never chased.
The paper was less than desirable, the graphite was waxy and noncommittal; all factors that I had to play ref to. The advantages were the disadvantages; printer paper that was betrothed to toner ink unexpectedly elopes with cheap and waxy graphite. Cheap graphite is reluctant to commit, but holds tenaciously to the idea after accepting it (this made for a crisp, delicate and abundant detail). It had to be built up slowly with quick dentistry-like gestures. Smudging methods were almost completely forgone, and I avoided anything Gibson-like (my latest drawing obsession).
I didn't do a movie. Ate my boxed pizza alone and in peace, read online news, took a snooze, time for sleep.
Ave verum is a gorgeous piece of music.
So I wake up at 5:20, eat a can of stewed tomatoes, two tablespoons of flax oil, and off to work I go. We're closed to the public on Mondays, but our offices are open for business. I grabbed the nearest piece of paper (printer paper), whipped a pencil out of my shirt pocket, and threw down the fist net of composition/shape-searching lines for an aforesaid commission (a few blogs a go if memory serves).
Serious drawings often start like romances: unexpected, effortless, slipshod. Usually as rough drafts or exercises which show some unusual flicker of promise, become overdeveloped, and are in a blink the real thing. Never chased.
The paper was less than desirable, the graphite was waxy and noncommittal; all factors that I had to play ref to. The advantages were the disadvantages; printer paper that was betrothed to toner ink unexpectedly elopes with cheap and waxy graphite. Cheap graphite is reluctant to commit, but holds tenaciously to the idea after accepting it (this made for a crisp, delicate and abundant detail). It had to be built up slowly with quick dentistry-like gestures. Smudging methods were almost completely forgone, and I avoided anything Gibson-like (my latest drawing obsession).
I didn't do a movie. Ate my boxed pizza alone and in peace, read online news, took a snooze, time for sleep.
Ave verum is a gorgeous piece of music.