Author: Walter

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Hill Lines

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I like a couple of things about this one. The silver & gold – as it looked to me – relates to the hills which have been stripped of their native bush – for commercial reasons. And I have worked this from rough sketches to this more definitive … sketch?

That is the trouble – this is beyond sketching. I wanted these things to be sketches in their own right – but this one wants to be a painting. It wants real paint too. Damn. Why is it a problem? There is no way I can do 1000 of these in one year. Ah!

Some of the sketches are having a battle with the project!! I hope they sort it out 🙂

For all that it looks good in its A3+ print!

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Don’t worry we’ll soon be dead

Saying yes to a whim presented by life is a good thing – but how was I to know it would kidnap me? All I want is peace – but no chance with the launch coming up and the pressure I have created here to work. Panic. Then Kate says “Don’t worry we’ll soon be dead” quoting back my idea that there is plenty of time for peace in the grave.

Today: Got the www.thousandsketches.com domain working! Now it is really messy. www.thousandsketches.dreamhost.com still has the blog, some links won’t work.

Messy!

Realisation: The site is a sketch too. Creating a site is a project and not just a preparation for a project! I have been trying to do it so that it is ready now! I have all the time I need, the line around a year does not apply to the site! The “gallery” and the blog are adequate for now but I have many plans for both, but there is no rush. Phew!

Conversations: Are good. But only while my main one is with www.thousandsketches.com – and it speaks only to me. See this quote from Kahn On Collaboration. The important thing is to distinguish between the “architecture” and the “providing a service” – I am still doing the first & later I can call in the plumbers.

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Heavy Going…

A shift in my energy… I don’t want to know about it. I don’t want to sketch it, or blog it. I liked the bursting & the buzzing but now… the predictable slowing down. I don’t know how to draw it, I don’t want to.

I have been posting sketches up & want take them down! Argh. I have some more & don’t really want to put them up. So I have the phrase in mind, “sketch my way out of it.” And here I am blogging anyway, sticking with the process. It could well get harder yet!

Right or wrong, to be self reflective and autobiographical, to me, is the one area of this work, right now anyway, that I think is… edgy. I have not found sites where the work process is noted as I do here. I’d like to see more of it. Duane Keiser from http://duanekeiser.blogspot.com is doing something similar in his blog: On Painting he is a pioneer in this painting online.

So more about the process:

Today I did some sketches of Manuka seed heads. I took pictures of plants while up at Mt. Lyford a week or so ago – and then I could not wait to sketch them. Today I wonder why I am doing it.

Perhaps it is that I want to draw something small.

I have two of them I may do more.

Now I notice something… I feel heavy, and I sketch light.

I feel like posting them up, but I have two or three others to post first. Hard to keep up with myself. This is about the Manuka sketches… I can add links later.

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All We Are Saying…

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I made the white monochrome ages ago, exploring fake brush strokes. (A week seems like ages in this explosive experience I am having.) Then I had a dream, woke up with the words “White Ages” on my mind from the dream. Still half asleep I wanted to tell Kate about the dream, but the form it took was to sing “All we are saying is give peace a chance.” I felt very sad. Old marches full of hope with that refrain flowing in waves down the street, and now thirty years later – war! I felt sad about John Lennon being murdered. This image came to mind. Better in my mind than my execution of it.

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Launch

You are invited.
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Thousand Sketches

A project to create a thousand sketches
in one year by Walter Logeman

Launch!

Celebrate the birth of this project and watch it unfold throughout the coming year. There will be 100 on show and for sale.
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Friday 3 November 2006

5.30 pm Viewing: Drinks & Nibbles
6.30 pm Launch:
A conversation about the project with Walter

Elizabeth Kelly Room
Arts Centre
Corner of Hereford Street & Rolleston Ave
Christchurch New Zealand

RSVP
walter@psybernet.co.nz

03 377 1206

www.thousandsketches.com

“Thousand Sketches” brings together my interest in drawing, psychotherapy and cyberspace in a dramatic & dynamic way. I think of it as a conversation & I look forward to your participation.  – Walter

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It is good for the mind to go back to the beginning because the beginning of any established activity of a person is its most wonderful moment. For in it lies all its spirit and resourcefulness, from which we must constantly draw our inspirations of present needs.

Louis Kahn

 

 

 

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Project development – website

It has been a busy time! I have just put up 15 sketches, and also re-vamped all the pages so that they now have a “Bottom Menu” – this is often off the screen – and this is to keep the opening screen as clean as I can. However it is a menu that will be on all pages and I can update it easily as there are more perspectives etc. Most of the links work right now, if not soon.

Please explore!

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