#0719 Train View
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I put the view inside the picture.
Playfully … after Matisse
I like the idea. Not only windows but paintings, computers & TV. Some of my portraits show bits of TV, so that is a start.
Allen Gallery, Chelsea, New York.
While in New York I made an arrangement to have some of the Thousand Sketches prints for exclusive sale in a Chelsea, Manhattan Gallery!
It began when I stumbled into the gallery not far from where I was staying and saw some prints and originals by Zoe Mac on show. I liked them and I was impressed by the printing process she used, not unlike mine! It turned out it was her opening the next night and I was invited. From there it led to Michel Allen selecting 14 prints that she will handle from New York!
This is a good development for me & this project. It is the first of what I hope will be several galleries that choose to be the exclusive outlet for some of the prints.
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I am pleased to make this announcement, I would have done it earlier but I wanted to have the link to the prints in place first.
Base 2
#0711 Base 2
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Base
Found some old sketches, from right at the start of this project. Here is the initial doodle, followed by my taking it through various processes. I am now pleased I learnt how to do that. I don’t rely on filterin to do the job, but many of the sketches get a little post production.
#0710 Base
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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.
Kee Krasner, art talk.
First a sketch, then some art talk.
#0696 Lee Krasner
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This is from a self portrait. She looks young. I like Lee Krasner. She is of course well known and associated with Pollock, and I have a sense that they were together able to become as creative as they were. Relationships count. Unfortunately she is not as easy to spot around as Pollock. I hope I have bought out her strength in this sketch. I loved what I saw of her work at MoMA though. I have some shots I can add later.
I splashed out & bought a beautiful catalogue of a recent exhibition of her later work. I think it is about the best thing I bought on this trip. Found it in a secondhand book shop in Brooklyn.
More talk & Images follow.
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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Life Drawing Group, Saturday 4 August 2007 San Francisco
Now that was a very interesting new thing to do in my life. What a lot of learning. The sketches are mostly looser & rougher than I put up and all from the one class. They are all part of the project. One ot the things about doing these 1000 sketches is that I do want to sketch and this event gave me “permission to do that. I want to sketch lots to explore, loosen up, and discover my hand. Another few of these events will help. I will also give the same 2 min approach per sketch a go NOW for some still lifes.
Below is one, and the link to the rest.
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Duchamp
#487 Duchamp
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11″ x 8.5″ image on 13″ x 19″ archival matte paper.
I have a lot of time for Duchamp. I recall the controversy when an exhibition came to Sydney, must have been late 50s? I was a kid. I thought it was stupid. But now I can see it more clearly. Art looking at art. Art asking what is art, art art. And here is a sketch, hardly art, but a little portal into the question what is art.
It was Duchamp who came up with the idea of recapitulation art, he had a go at all the styles before him, I can see how that leads to thinking about what it is all about.
One thing that it *is* about is the process, the idea, the concept. Was he the first who really got that? Maybe the first to make that idea into art.
How does it tie in with Thousand Sketches? Simple, the idea in the form of the blog + digital images (all open source & on the web) plus prints for sale is the idea that comes tied into the wehole thing. The prints have the Thousand Sketches # on them – they are a physical portal to the site. Buy one now! (or just download one but it won’t have my signature on it.
That was another thing that Duchamp bought into focus. Found objects – signed. Signing something makes quite a statement.
Links:
An earlier post, with a podcast I made that quotes another podcast on Duchamp
Animated images related to Duchamp’s Nude (images of that follow!)
Images follow, all by Duchamp.
Slideshow
Flickr has an improved slideshow. Here are a few of my sketches – favourites.