#0704 Layers of Earth
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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.
Night Life
#0702 Night Life
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I’m Home! Things are coming together.
Night Life (from NY):
#0701 Night Life
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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.
Space – last post form the USA
#0700 Space
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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!
Calligraphy 4
#0690 Calligraphy 4
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Calligraphy
#0689 Caligraphy
My friend Charles coined a phrase “Calligraphy of God”
the Renaissance notion of ‘reading nature as a book’ or what
one might term ‘meditation on the calligraphy of god’
He quotes Gyorgi Kepes to explain the idea.
Seen together, aerial maps of river estuaries and road systems,
feathers, fern leaves, branching blood vessels, nerve ganglia,
electron micrographs of crystals and the tree-like patterns of
electrical discharge-figures are connected, although they are
vastly different in place, origin, and scale. Their similarity of
form is by no means accidental.
He was reminded of this notion with some of my sketches, and asked for more in the style of “Drumbeat”, which is one of my favourites. (I have more in the style among the “Abstract” Category). At his request here are a few more.
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More thoughts on this follow, with quotes from Pollock, Kandinsky and Harold Rosenberg on Action Painting.
City Collage
#0681 City Collage
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The last image – morphed & played with – it kept me up last night doing this.
Sketches! – this one – Untitiled
Too much Art Talk and not enough sketches? New York ones coming up. Fist an old one I found in the place where Corel puts things when it crashes, there were a lot there, I only wanted to rescue this one.
#0675 Untitiled
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Smart
#0667 Smart
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Doing the live sketching has given me more sense of the gradation of tone available with pencil. I will keep going with more tonal exploration.
From plein air to abstract landscape in Buena Vista Park
I walked to the top of Buena Vista Park just above Height today. Saw the people & their dogs. I had a glimpse of the park yesterday and the first sketch in this series was from memory of something I’d like to do when I walked in the park.
Here is the final image – I will put that here, and link to the day’s work all on one page. There were also some “combinations of “layers” I found striking, so I have added them in.
See all nine Buena Vista sketches.
#0633 Buena Vista IX
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