Cactus series
July 25, 2011 § Leave a comment
In the category of continuous tippy toeing towards painting these small sketches started with a pencil sketch and combined layers of ink wash to define the basic composition and shadows. They’re layered with white conte & black charcoal pencil to work out light areas and transitions. The series gradually gets more painterly as it progresses.
I was reminded of this classical approach in reading “Cezanne’s Composition” by Erle Lorgan where he describes how Cezanne organized a picture. It allowed him to work very rapidly from what he saw once having mapped out basic compositional and dark/light relationships in a loose and exploratory way. By approaching each phase of the work as a discovery based on what’s learned in the prior stage the picture comes “alive”.
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- Ink, conte & pencil | 3″ x 4″ | 2011
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- Ink wash, conte & charcoal | 3″ x 4″ | 2011
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- Ink, conte, charcoal | 3″ x 4″ | 2011
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- Ink, conte, charcoal | 3″ x 4″ | 2011
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- Ink, conte, charcoal | 3″ x 4″ | 2011
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- Black + white acrylics, conte, charcoal | 3″ x 4″ | 2011
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- Black + white acrylics, conte, charcoal | 3″ x 4″ | 2011
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- Acrylics, conte, charcoal | 3″ x 4″ | 2011
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- Acrylics, conte, charcoal | 3″ x 4″ | 2011
Leaves
April 21, 2011 § Leave a comment
These drawings use black & white charcoal with white conte. Lots of smearing, erasing, layering and reworking. Results in dirty hands, face and clothes and the feeling of time spent in a worthwhile pursuit.
Spiney bush thing
Charcoal + white conte | 18"x24" | 2011
Charcoal & white conte | 18"x24"| 2011Charcoal & white conte | 10" x 14" | 2011
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