Archive for the ‘Drawing’ Category
Anatomy Lab
Friday, May 13th, 2011
Till now
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
I need to write something here—
My drawing and painting are close again. Seeing what I’m showing in this post is the opposite of satisfying. Their similarity to each other, and the noticing that these shapes I drew as asides are not that anymore, worries me. I feel like I’m relying on them; like they, and their silly ‘tense’ compositions are a style.
I started the school-year with the multi-page drawing up top (finished, it had another piece of white paper collaged on to the left of the one depicted). It felt fresh, and like something of a glossary, or chart of possibilities. Above it (out of the photo) are similar shapes in string, reaching round the top of my studio walls.
They’re up here, now. Filed away. Tomorrow there will be no straight lines.
The start of the second video (Batman (Magic)) makes me smile.
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I’ve finished photographing a box of lost property I found in a skip. I’m very much looking forward to making a series of posts about the contents on that near-abandoned other blog of mine.
Variable dimensions
Thursday, December 30th, 2010
It seems that whenever my drawing and painting are getting closer together they shoot off in other directions again.
Drawings, like these, are all I’ve been doing since Christmas. Constructing them is a fairly logical process. I think of them as three-dimensional objects, and by connecting each point they become credible, even though they may give the illusion of impossibility. I like the play between two, and three, dimensions, and how the freehand drawing adds to that. I had the thought to make them in a 3-D modelling program, but I think they would lose a lot. Animating them (again, freehand) is something I want to try.
I’m curious to hear if anyone else reads them as 3-D, because, so far, no one else does! Perhaps I’ve spent too much time playing old-ish videogames.
These are, of course, related to the forms I’ve used in installation, and collage.
Drawing, again
Thursday, October 21st, 2010![Erin Sitting, with Elbow Out [drawing]](http://ryliejamesthomas.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/erin-sitting-with-elbow-out.jpg "Erin Sitting, with Elbow Out")
Erin Sitting, with Elbow Out
I’m a bit frustrated with all my work, at the moment. I’m impatient, and it feels like I’m right at the start of everything. The abstract paintings are getting bigger, and are going somewhere, at least. I am looking forward to pushing my drawing. Moving away from line, which I feel very in control of, and trying really dig people out of that page. The carefulness, and tenderness that line can give, I don’t want to lose, but..
I mused today about how controlled my paintings and drawings are. Even in the paintings that start with stains, and thick messes, there are later placed bars and rectangles of single colours. I have a very ordered way of looking at images, that I think comes across most obviously in my videos. I worry about this, too, being too clean, and illustrative (though not in the video).
Bye, people
Friday, September 24th, 2010Two days ago:
Today:
That smiley face was not put there deliberately.