It is becoming clear that this Sketching Project and my long standing psychological interests are very related. More so than I anticipated. So I have been writing on my other Blog about Thousand Sketches. That is followed by a post about OnlineGroups.Net which has some of its roots in the same creative flow.
Trade Me
I have sketches on Trade Me. Still learning about this too! All part of the “archetecture”. A Web Gallery, a blog and now an auction room. Contrary to my expectations I like the more public viewing! The images have not been up long and there has been more interest as the word goes out.
Manuka 3a
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Larger Image.
The print looks nice on A4 paper, with the image 12 cm wide – I think I will frame this one & some like it, in this format for the “launch”.
Manuka 2a
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Here they are my “light” sketches, while I was feeling “heavy”.
I am learner! Did far more of these than I posted, but getting the hang of it, and want to do more. These are small & simple. Sketches that want to be sketches!
They lightened my mood.
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Orchid
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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The Bacchanals
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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.
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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