Thursdays Antics

Yes I know im late in uploading this my brain has been swamped with my current case study work. A few posts ago I mentioned trying out some Light Drawing. Well, yesterday that was the task at hand. The location was the drama suite within the middlefield building and I was fortunate enough to have help with my classmates and friends. So a huge thank you, to Brian Wilson, Eilidh Jones, Sheena (whos second name escapes me) and another girl whos name escapes me, However I will edit and post her name once i figure it out. Im useless with names.

 Recording my legs dancing about. Was a great laugh and I really like the aspect of recording movement, such as dance as a compressed video almost.

These are just a few of Thursdays Antics. And were a fantastic result of experimentation. Yet again a huge thanks to my friends and classmates. The knowledge gained from Thursday will stay around for years and who knows when more Light Drawing antics will show up again.

Back to work... again

Ive been slightly busy, working away on my case study for college and this is the first time Ive made a point to sit on my backside, (turn off facebook) and update this.

Ive got quite a lot of ideas for experimentation into the wonderful world of drawing. Watch this space for some gastropoda antics. This thursday Im hoping to have some fun antics with light drawing after finally finding some suitable torches and lights. Ive already asked my wonderful classmate Eilidh Jones if she would mind helping out with a few ideas I have. Might even pester a few other people for their assistance.

But today has been a day for the contextual practice, aka The Helix Project... Im feeling confident about my work and currently drying in the college classroom is one maquette which shall hopefully dry out fully by thursday (or atleast dry out enough to be removed from its frame without destruction). 

 Below are a few photographs for ideas on laying out my little log disks. Each one has a tiny section of a larger drawing enlarged and applied. But because I dont want to give too much away. There is only a few to be seen and the remainder of these disks are currently underneath all the plaster in the above maquette.

Like I said, Its just a bit of brain buzzing on how I could lay out my little wooden disks for the project at hand.

Oh quicky mention. Memorise this name Victoria Steven, you'll see it in Art Now books in the future. Fantastic willow artist in college and in several weeks, she and her classmates will be finishing their 3rd year Degree with the upcoming exhibition.

Now ive saved the best till last. Today at the Park Gallery was an artists talk by the fantastic Pam Smy. Her work as an Illustrator is fantastic and everyone should give her a google. Pam Smy illustrated the book "Follow the Swallow" written by Julia Donaldson, Creator of The Gruffalo.
Her fantastic talk really opened my eyes to the potential of being an illustrator one of the several ambitions i hold. Throughout my case study my eyes have been opened up to how professional artists, illustrators and draftsmen work and produce what they do. Seeing Pam Smy's work has confirmed that for me. I shouldnt be ashamed of my crap scribbles, Its all practice and I need to stop being hung up on how perfect my drawings have to be. Sketchy and Doodles, rock!
I just want to express a huge thank you for Pam Smy coming to the college for her artist talk, especially since I got my times wrong for the Artist Talk at the Park Gallery. However, I still need to go and check out whats on show at the Gallery.

Everyone should check out her beautiful work.

http://pamsmy.blogspot.com/

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This is one of a few videos recorded its an experiment with the Concept of Drawing. The action of drawing is when you apply ink to the waterdrawn medium. I love how the ink flushes through the water and once dried your left with the end result. An image. But the end result is never as interesting as the process of making the image.

some more sketchbookery

 The above are all quick sketches of a poor little frog which had pretty much been freeze dried in a shed during the last winter. The wrinkles and tonal detail it had were brilliant and i wish i had spent more time on drawing the little critter.

 Yes its not a drawing. I rolled up a weedy plant with some printing ink and then "printed" the plant onto paper. It didnt work according to plan but im happy with the detail i did get. Its rather fine and whispy. But still documented. Who knows, It may be a plan in the future?

 Yet again, some inked up gloves pressed out onto paper. gave this fantastic dotty detail and i love how it crinkled and creased lines and tonal detail.

the brain goes buzzz

So its been a rather busy day with housework, looking after my dog Maddie and dealing with the dinner. But I felt I needed to post todays thinkings on the concept of drawing.

 You see, today i did a spot of sewing, half from boredom but to try out making an image through thread. Its not the first time ive sewed to build an image. But i thought of this experiment in that, the line the pen would make, is being replaced by the colour of thread. The thread becomes the pen line. You can construct shape and form and by "hatching" the sewen thread like you would a pen you can build textures and detail like you would to an image. I have this idea. That colour, does not play a part in the action of drawing, and that colour may can separate drawing from painting in that, in painting, you premix the paint for it to be applied to the media. In drawing any form of colour comes from layering the medium, using a red pencil on blue makes a visually purple shade but actually they still remain two different colours and it is our eyesight blending the two.

Within my sewing using two different coloured threads like two different coloured pens or pencils does not result in a coloured image or an embroidered piece of work. Afterall this was just "a sketch" But what showed up when the piece i was working with was held up to the light was a happy and interesting accident.

 Now, I hate drawing faces, I dont feel i have a "style" or anything distinct from another artist who makes faces. But from my use of some plastic sheeting that was laying around the thread behind it casts a slight shadow and almost like construction lines to any drawing. I hate drawing noses, But i quite like what happened in this doodle.
So yet again the brain began to buzz and tick...

Here is my idea. When you draw with any medium, pen, pencil, ink, chalk etc... The drawing is created by making a mark onto a surface you rely on the friction between the two to transferr the ink, graphite and so on, to the suface of whatever your using. What if you could draw in air, Draw in space?

Obviously you can use a torch and a camera to record some light drawing but you need a camera to hold the image for the world to see... That and you need specific camera settings and good timing. Its something i intend to try out at a later date however, My thought is. If you could pull the line of ink from a pen, would it be rectangular and thin or circular and more like a tube?

Id prefer to think of it as a tube, Although it may be impossible for now to hold a line of ink in space It did get me thinking. And i have another concept i aim to try and experiment with soon.

But my concept was pushed further when i began thinking of the line as a more three dimensional tube. To reflect this, i thought of wire, tubing, steel cord and the suchlike. But It all seemed to drift about in my head until i sat outside in the garden and looked around.

 I noticed a thread laid on the ground, clearly from a rope toy my dog had mauled. A 3Dimensional line into a form or shape and laid down.

 And another thread, Blown up to a window sill and caught into a spider web, suspended and lifted from the ground and surface, from its media. To show its shape... This is what settled down what a 3Dimensional line of ink could become. If you pulled a line from a pen and had it suspended in mid air This is what it could be.

And by bloody heck, i need to experiment and progress with this brain buzzing idea.

Just another random moment

So, it was just a normal Saturday, yes I know its taken me a while to upload this... anyways. We went to callendar park with Maddie for her mid day walk. When we came across some randomly dumped chairs. I couldn't resist standing them out and all I.could remember was the "non places" project in the first term of second year degree. I just laughed at the idea of a random waiting area in the middle of the park off the beaten track. It's random moments of visual weirdness I love so much.

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"Nulla dies sine linea" Plinio (23-79 d.C) - "No day without a line"

Im a local art student in my hometown studying my specialism in drawing. I adore art and from past experiences in sculpture, installation, printmaking and such nothing excites me more than the skill and art of drawing.
A lot of my work I like to think of it as fun and lighthearted, theres enough depression and serious issues coming out in the artworld, so its time for some fun. Although most of my work can be fine detailed I'm currently exploring the process of line and markmaking in great detail and hopefully, this site can help me record my discoveries and progression.
A lot of drawing ideas evolve from photography so you have been warned there may be alot of that here, what also inspires me is what I experience personally on a day to day basis, my childhood also inspires me to draw, the natural environments and the fun and energy my friends give and share each day.

Im hoping that by having this blog I shall be encouraged more to document my work and push myself to draw even more.

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