I'm getting ready to go to haystack for twelve days! I'm taking a hand building ceramics workshop. Something different and out of my comfort zone. I've done a little hand building and I love it, and working with clay seems like an extension of drawing to me. We've been gardening and cooking too. And exploring color and pattern and drawing are always a refreshment.
5.25.2010
Drawing in the Garden
Today was so summery I spent hours out in the garden just drawing in sketchbooks. I think the light in these photos captures the feeling of the experience pretty well. I've started to do the drawing project daily sketches in a sketchbook, rather than only on loose sheets of drawing paper, when I feel a bit tired. I always feel more free to experiment when I am using a sketchbook. I know some people feel nervous about sketchbooks, but I feel that I can do anything in them.
Labels:
drawing project,
gardening,
sketchbook
5.18.2010
Lately
The color and pattern collages are still interesting to me. Composing with paper alone is so different than mixing color. I like the immediacy and freedom it offers. The tendency I have is to create an abstracted realism, so I'm focusing a bit more on abstraction. I always seesaw between these choices. I find the most freedom in pure abstract drawing in my sketchbooks. The drawing project is teaching me at least one thing very clearly: make at least one drawing every day no matter what. It's SO easy to find a reason not to draw! And they are valid, those reasons...but I find if I do it anyway I do get somewhere.
Labels:
collages,
drawing,
drawing project
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