…always looks slightly strange to me. Alien. The things I’ve made contain memory, sure, but it’s not released in the way that might seem logical. I can remember certain things about drawing, while I’m drawing, and not otherwise. A memory that resides in the hand, not the eye. So scanning what I’ve done is always… Continue Reading
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Looking like a nono…
Working on the third drawing of the day. Or rather procrastinating on the third drawing of the day. There’s an itch to get on with some of the sorts of things that I’ve been thinking about doing for the past couple of years, but I wonder if that’s simply one of the things I’m using… Continue Reading
Slave to the picturesque…
Came in to town and got yet another sketchbook (because it was little and had smooth pages that could take ink and the only one I had that size was a moleskine with rough pages)and a German Donald Duck comic for some additional source material. Evidently he’s huge here, because everywhere you go there are… Continue Reading
A little test…
Here’s something I’ve learned how to do today: to go from the above scan of a sketch in my moleskine to the image below, which was made in Illustrator, Photoshop and ArtRage a very interesting and cheap painting program. I know some of you on my friends list do this sort of thing all day… Continue Reading
Sometimes I worry….
…about not posting enough. The past week has provided two states of being: feeling ill, thus too limp to reflect and type or doing stuff, in which case there is no time to type. The result? A week slips by with nothing. So now finally some time is wrested from the job, which allows for… Continue Reading
Apres…
…therapy, and before tonight’s “Slidefest” an event which I had to curate this week because I had kept putting it off. Thank goodness I know some very patient artists who consented to come and present work tonight. Otherwise things would be looking pretty pathetic. In the 45 minutes of downtime, I’ve knocked out a drawing… Continue Reading
Arianna = Zsa Zsa?
I am so glad I am not living in California right now. Actually this entry is an excuse to list my current mood as “moody”. If only there was an option for moodily moody. Late yesterday I ran over to the gallery to meet with Sarah, the designer who is fabricating “the big one” the… Continue Reading