NEW STUDIO Week Fifteen

Another late post – I need to sharpen up a bit.

I made a series of test videos and tried them out in the space, last weeks caveats apply to the finishes.

The time it takes to render the models is horrendous with my equipment so I need to invest in some better kit.

I was only in the studio for two days because of a meeting and started some drawing and stretched some paper.

In between time I started a painting based on one of the attic drawings.

garden painting May 2019

All in all a bit of a week to forget.

 

NEW STUDIO Week Fourteen

Continuing with drawing this week, and having to concentrate on the 3d model because of the poorly cat.

six new drawings started

On Monday I started six new drawings, these had white emulsion painted on the 17th (Friday) and were added to on Monday.

Garden Drawing 20/05/19

Also began this drawing on four sheets of A1 cartridge. It harks back, as I realised afterwards, to the ladybird drawings I did an age ago –

https://www.ian-latham.com/blog/2015/08/08/ladybird/

https://www.ian-latham.com/blog/2015/08/15/ladybird-2/

https://www.ian-latham.com/blog/2015/11/28/ladybird-2-finished-in-so-far-as/

All of these drawings are trying to find a way to realise the 3d model as projection and environment for the installation.

sketch notes 20/05/19

I thought it was worth including a picture of a sketchbook page with reflections of the day’s activities. I often write in the sketchbook or my diary to record the way I’m thinking, not really to hold on to it but more to be able to see how my thinking has changed through the process.

drawings continued

On Wednesday I continued working on the drawings from Monday, for some reason I didn’t photograph one of them and I can’t remember why. Wednesday was split up by a visit to a potential new studio in the morning, it has twenty rooms including a small hall/gym and a roof terrace and is just around the corner from where I am now. In the afternoon I had a visit from the architects for the potential buyers who spent two hours measuring for drawings so I’m on borrowed time at the minute.

Wednesday Sketchbook

I started to pick up the elements from the six drawings in the sketchbook and then developed three new ones from the bottom right sketch.

three new drawings

On Friday, as I couldn’t get in to the studio I made a model of the middle drawing.

There are also two new garden videos ready for project with a more robust model integrated as a walkthrough but I’m dissatisfied with the experience as it lacks the quality of the drawings.

NEW STUDIO Week Thirteen

A late blog after what seems like something of a hiatus. The visit by the contractors last week reminded me of the fragility of my tenure in the space, which made me look at how much stuff I’d generated in it and almost overwhelmed me with the prospect of moving it. At the back of my mind the ‘big skip’ solution, exercised a good many times over the years.

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I completed some of the drawings begun last week, and continued working with others.

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On Tuesday I split my time in the garden at home and the attic studio.

Garden 14th May 2019

A set of colour sketches accompanies this piece.

colour sketch 14th May

There are also the set of drawings started last week, that can be seen in this gallery.

Garden Drawings May 2019

On Wednesday I was back in the shop continuing with the drawings.

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Completing these drawings and beginning to re-interpret these into the sketchbook towards a 3d model.

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Friday was a truncated day, after more modelling, working on new drawings (prep only) and sketches.

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