There are many digital games to play with intricate abstract designs! My two circle drawings based on David Gallagher’s Segmental Sculpture have become landscape and beetle backs now…
Category Archives: My Art
Inspired by a photo
I was inspired by an old b&w photo of a sculpture by David Gallager (Segmental Sculpture, 1977, Green River Community College), which has been recently refurbished. I loved the tones of the older photo, as well as the shapes and qualities of the sculpture. So a little drawing, then a lot of digital playing:
Poster Art Variation of the Cave
Tracing Beetles onto the back of a defunct hairbrush
Watercolor & Pencil Caves
More work, and more fun
WIth digital mods, rescanned and w/colored & graphite pencil added
Watercolor Rocks II draft 5
Sometimes I work, and work and wonder “why?” I must suppose this angst is just the human condition. And working does keep me off the streets (by keeping my alcohol consumption down a bit). And, in truth, I crave all kinds of impossible things: rocks, bones, etc. that can only be imagined, so I must create them myself… Mind you I don’t ever reach the perfection of the vision, but again, that is the human condition.
So much fun just playing today!
More Work (After a Consultation)
Quote of the Day (said about my work!)
They All Came
On Monday I received a wonderful, unsolicited comment / compliment from a fellow artist, about this work, when I left it at Northwind Arts Center for juror review:
“that is a very powerful piece”
I couldn’t ask for a better compliment: so sincere, and so satisfying! I am happy!
I certainly hope the juror agrees! If so, this will be on exhibit in March in the show “Earth Matters”.
Color
I start with drawing, and line, and shading.
I love color: delicate, subtle, deep, vivid, intense, seductive colors!
But using color effectively in my art does not come naturally or easily for me. I have to enforce great restraint, or I will run amok with color, and lose all sense of the whole work.
I have never really practised or trained using a limited color palette, or had any patience what so ever with color theory. As with all work, I play and experiment, and use whatever is to hand and feels right. Of course this does not always have a satisfactory result!
However working by the rules, while impressive and effective, is often dull, even stultifying. Why create art without pleasure?
And all my mistakes will, I hope, inform my next work without constraining me in a tedious way.
Alternate version of Bones Laid Out, with watercolor, digital extended
I like to think that, anyway!