I use the cheapest paper to work on. I hate to waste good paper. Since I always start every drawing believing it's destiny is abject failure only the crappiest . So my crappy paper goes gnarly and rippled the longer I paint. After 4 weeks of stroking this one has the geography of dessicated parchment. It aged with me so it's not Dorian Gray.
Monday, March 02, 2009
wrinkle
I use the cheapest paper to work on. I hate to waste good paper. Since I always start every drawing believing it's destiny is abject failure only the crappiest . So my crappy paper goes gnarly and rippled the longer I paint. After 4 weeks of stroking this one has the geography of dessicated parchment. It aged with me so it's not Dorian Gray.
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I love how the top part of the piece is bright and bursting with lively reds, oranges and pinks while the bottom where the kidney bean head baby area is, is in cold blues although the baby himself is yellow. It's like his birth circumstances - in the face of the big pink-red queen frond thing - are giving him pause to consider going back where he came from.
Is he yellow moving toward life and pinkness but something somehow alien and over-the-top or will he retreat back into the blueness and safety of a state that feels somewhat mechanistic and deathly?
That's what I thought today. I will revisit again.
MAN, I'm a-loving your color work, Larry! It's stunning! Very organic feel to it!
Agy
It's the same feeling I get when I buy sketchbooks. I feel like the black binding, the hardcover feels too much like a book, as if everything I'm going to draw in it is final, done, can never be taken back.
That's why I guess I've never really drawn anything that I really liked in there. It's always been on lose pieces of paper, napkins, or a paper torn out of a sketchbook. :)
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