#0810 Little
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Trees7, and a few more!
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Sketching, I took my Tablet outside into the bush around the house, sketched what was in front of me. Struggled with trees.
More from my time under the trees, I am posting them all in one post:
Henry
#0802 Henry
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From a video, a documentary called Who Gets to Call It Art? by Peter Rosen. (review) This is the Henry who was …. well what? Some sort of mentor to Andy Warhol and David Hockney and a whole bunch of N.Y. abstract expressionists. Will write more here, and post work from both of those artists of Henry if I can find it, and hopefully one by Alice Neel. It is such a male bunch, but there were women and she must have been one, as well as Lee Krasner, they still fall away in the gender gap.
Have found some more:
Canterbury Plains from the air
#0801 Canterbury Plains from the air
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
Rachel.Cawte@ats.co.nzHi Walter,
Depending on your location you may or may not be in a position to answer my enquiry…
I am interested in print #0801 Canterbury Plains from the Air which I discovered on your blog Thousand Sketches and would greatly appreciate information on pricing and size options.
Again, I hope that you are safe and well.
Kind regards,
Rachel
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Dear Rachel,
I am in Christchurch, and we are ok, house is ok. Thanks for asking.
#0801 – That one is available. I’d recommend the A3 plus size 329 x 483 (19 inches wide though the image itself will be less) The image is wider than usual, so would look better on a larger width, even if the height were trimmed in framing.
The price for that is $140, plus postage of $30, packed flat and well protected.
You could pick it up if you dare come into the place and they let you in, I am within the cordoned area, though you could come to my work in Papanui road.
A3 is $110 with $20 postage and A4 is $90 with 10 postage.
You can pay online
Westpac 03 0802 0144073 000
Warm wishes,
Walter
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Silver Cut
#0800 Silver Cut
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Silver Back
#0799 Silver Back
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Silver2
#0798 Silver2
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Silver
#0797 Silver
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Break
#0796 Break
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I explore lines quite a bit. And circles and crosses, more coming up. A line is a lot. It makes a break between this & that. Boundaries. Gaps, barriers. I like lines. I am safe with a good line. The Thousand Sketches is a line and a circle, it is a boundary around this project, makes me work hard, but I know it will stop.
Lines, I have fiddled with this one, made it gray, this felt very blue. And widened the gap! Will post results later.
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I just read an interview in The Christchurch art gallery Bulleting 150 Julian Dashper whose exhibition in Christchurch I saw. Here he talks about circles:
l notice that circles recur often in your work, not only with your records but also in your repeated use of drum sets and the (0) paintings. What is the significance of circles for you? I first started working with circles circa (smile out loud) 1992. Another older artist had suggested to me that a circle was really the hardest shape to work with as it totally dictated itself. It’s difficult to paint a budgie inside a circle and for it still to look good, I guess. I just immediately thought,‘Gosh a painting that makes itself’, and rushed our and bought a compass. Circles also echo ideas in nature For me, and you can’t get more perfect than that (nature, I mean). Actually, the thing is, Peter, every artist has to start somewhere and I figure a circle is as good a place as a railway station.
Mark Rothko
#0795 Mark Rothko
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I deleted a lot but this one made it here. I don’t mind that the subject is an actor. I like it! There is another link in the chain of abstraction. The person, the script, the director, the actor, thefilm, the screen, and now all this processing… it is like a compost heap.