Willow branch, dark blue ink, on paper CC12
Friday, 2 November 2012
What I have always loved about drawing is that I can do it anywhere at any time. There is never any issue of preparing or cost involved. I read once that Jackson Pollock when he was so broke he could not afford paper he would take bank deposit slips for paper to draw on.
They can be as big or small as you want them to be. Small enough to fit in your pocket or large enough to cover a wall.
Thursday, 1 November 2012
This Drawing which was made this past week is from a series I started in 2001. Only recently have I returned to it. The drawings are made with cut willow branches dipped in dark blue ink on paper. Some of the drawings are made with branches as long as three feet in order to get back from the drawing while still having contact. I have always walked back and away from the paper to look at my drawings while working on them. Using long branches enabled me to be back from the work in order to see it but still be able to work on it at the same time. Having only recently looked back at this series I have found a new energy for it and a shift in direction that has taken place some 11 years later.
I remember going into a gallery a few years ago with another painter. Upon entering we saw a drawing show. The show consisted of artists who do not draw, or at least not very much. We said to each other that the dealer must have said he was putting a show together and needed a drawing from each artist in the gallery. We left after having a good laugh knowing that they certainly were not what we were. I draw all the time. They are an activity all in themselves. I have always believed that painters have drawings for blood. If you do not draw then don't show them. Other people may not see what you are but a draughtsman will.
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