I’ve an urge to do some plain air sketching. So been Googleing
Plein Air Brooks: June 2010 Portland Plein Air Paintings
“Portland Steamer” Oregon Maritime Museum, SW Pine and SW Naito, Portland Oregon
I am not as prolific as in my ThousandSketches days. But when the urge comes I find I’m enjoying my productions. I recently sold a few prints and loved making them. Last night I thought about spring. I made the image below, Day I called it. So I also made a Night. Next post.
Exploring an old theme of mine with new apps.
There is rhythm in this style so I call them Music.
Without the art Gallery out of action this is a wonderfully innovative exhibit. I was moved to see that with many of these buildings gone, their heritage can survive.
No I’ve not yeast printed them but put them on Pinterest, and snapped the three side by side.
These were built from the same DNA but have vastly different experiences, and have washed out in their various ways… Are they still related?
Following this idea that the digital image can fade, wear, and enhance its beauty over time.
Now I wonder how much wabi sabi influenced the work of Jackson Pollock and those whom bought calligraphic ideas from japan like Mark Tobey
Autumn Field
1957
Mark Tobey
Born: Centerville, Wisconsin 1890
Died: Basel, Switzerland 1976
tempera on paper
sheet: 47 x 36 in. (119.4 x 91.5 cm)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
1968.52.23
Not currently on view
This is an image (like all these recent instagram ones has been somewhat mutilated by filters. The thing is that in cyberspace things don’t really wear down with age or use, but instagram instantly gives the image some sense of being worn in – like a n old pair of jeans. Then I think wabi sabi. I looked for images with that tag and found a few that sit well alongside this one 9and the others probably) – ill post them up in the next post.
This is a triptych created by making three Instagram versions from the same image. On the iPad.
The phrase “I am nature” from Jackson Pollock was going through my mind and was the stimulus for me to continue in my calligraphy mode. I have that sense that my nature is in these sketches, they flow from my hand and get tweaked by my eye.
There is more though. I’m challenging my owns and certainly the genesal concepttion that the tools, are not natural. There is something very organic about the growth of these tools. I’ve watched them evolve over 20 or more years and they have their own identity and nanature, they bring their own character to the party, they might well say “I am nature”.
I’ll post the next two up in a moment.
See earlier post for notes about these three. I am looking forward to printing them on thick rich paper.
One of the three. I have another set of three coming up. I like those better. I always like the last thing I did better.
This is the first sketch where I consciously sketched my experience in the ThousandSketches project. Well not sure just how consciously really.
I feel as if I’m bursting once again, but with other things like my writing and work. Having these explosions is both exhilarating and a pain.
http://artistsjournal.wordpress.com
I am always impressed by the enthusiasm this artists has for her simple abstract images. Inspiring.
It must be a lot of fun to play with paper and glue, and come up with these fairly small collages. (this one is 8″ x 8″)
I’ve been using my iPhone with the HDR setting – like the results! It will load slowly but show the max resolution.
(Posting it here partly to see how my feed to Psyberspace is working, though posting the odd snap here is not a bad idea.)
I have another blog: Psyberspace This is a test message to see if a post here alerts a reader on that blog.
Ill add an img for good measure.
Here is a recent doodle of mine:
