It's giving me ideas, it's been a while since I last added sewing to a drawing - I'm thinking it might be time to revisit that!
It has been one of those weeks when there is something on every day with a meeting arranging work, doctors' appointments, the optician, Covid booster, etc. I had grabbed an old exhibition catalogue of David Nash sculptures made between 1971 - 1990 to browse in waiting rooms etc. I haven't looked at this book for years, so the elemental nature of the work really grabbed me. I particularly like this piece from 1990 titled Comet Ball. The fantastic rugged comet trail and weight of the ball causing fire where it has apparently hit Earth is wonderful - I don't know if that's what it's supposed to be or if Nash was simply scorching the wooden ball, but I love the idea. Later in the week I was doing some sewing at my machine and turned the work over to snip off loose threads, and the threads accidentally streaming off the little circles of stitches reminded me of the Nash work.
It's giving me ideas, it's been a while since I last added sewing to a drawing - I'm thinking it might be time to revisit that! I posted a work in progress image on 9 October, before completing additions of red accents in the little red clouds. I only just realised I hadn't updated here with a finished image of the work which will be included in Open Eye Gallery's exhibition On a Small Scale which opens online on Saturday 26 November - this Saturday already. So here it is now.
Ooh, getting close to Christmas now, how exciting! Four works mounted on boards delivered to the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh for their Christmas Exhibition, On a Small Scale.
These will be available to buy exclusively from the gallery's online exhibition, which runs Saturday 26 November until Friday 23 December. They measure 21cm x 15cm (portrait). See previous blog entries for large images and details, or feel welcome to get in touch with me via my contact form if you would like any further information. This little sketch was actually a try-out for the four drawings I made last month for the Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh. It provided a way to get back into my work after a hiatus, while further testing my pens on the Japanese Kozo paper I am using now (earlier experiments can be seen here). The red pen I used in the test was too thick and dense to match the black lines, and bled into the paper a bit, making the lines a bit blotchy; so I ordered another red pen. Below are tests with the new Schneider Pictus, drawn in the margin, which matched perfectly. I added the little red clouds at the same time to see how it performed in solid colour - all good. I had left the test drawing on my desk and forgotten all about it until yesterday, when I decided I like it in spite of (or perhaps because of) its rough nature, so here it is now on my blog. The tiny barnacle shapes on the grey line of monotype at the top of the drawing have a great personality of their own.
This is the first time I have used a Schneider pen, it was the only one I could find in 0.05 to match the Uni Pin Fine Line by Mitsubishi Pencil Co, which I have used for a number of years, also 0.05. I wonder if Schneider make them in sepia - that would be nice with the black, too. If I remember from reading the Schneider spec sheet the pigment is so intense because it is water based - the next experiments will be to see what happens when the red comes into contact with water. I get very excited about the capabilities and properties of my materials. I decided this will be a birthday gift for a special friend who takes a great interest in my process, so he shall have it with all the work notes and everything. |
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Dissolving PeopleA symbol on the footpath outside a local primary school gradually disappearing as the image breaks up and wears away until eventually it is obliterated by leaves and barely discernible. Photographed at intervals of several months between February 2021 and November 2022, oldest at the top.
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