Archives for January 2008
Artist’s Sketchbooks Link
24 January 2008 | art | No Responses
For an absorbing and extensive source of blogs and images of artist’s sketchbooks, I recommend the following link:
http://www.gis.net/~scatt/sketchbook/links.html
Here you will find an array of links to sketchbooks past and present. This very blog is linked there under my name.
Two Seated on the Rocks
21 January 2008 | art, drawing | No Responses
The latest idea I am working on both in charcoal and in a painting has two figures seated on the rocks by the ocean, but they are now separated compared to before. I take advantage here of the horizontal expanse of space to push them apart. I have a penchant for creating vertical compositions; I always feel great excitement for this form and a bottom to top movement. I got to wondering what would result if I should turn this two figure idea sideways and use a long horizontally shaped format. Would it hold my interest as much, and what would I do with all the extra space on either side? In the end, I think the extra horizontal expanse does not work out in this sketch- the middle is not well executed.
Above is the very first rough sketch. It sticks to the masses and how they shift against each other. Also the disconnectedness of the two tastes of loneliness.