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Wading Through Mud

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Wading Through Mud

(Another New Studio)

This has been a busy couple of weeks since my last post (link to post) with work on the NHS Barnsley project which is progressing but will be the subject of another post when it’s completed.

Distractions aside I continued to work on the large drawing I’d started but didn’t post last time out.

Wading Through Mud

Large Rose 11/08/23

Then (11th August) it looked like this, there evidence of some changes in the centre at the bottom but it doesn’t work, too structured and neither one thing nor the other.

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Large Rose 14/08/23

So I decided it needed some stronger blogs at the top right and some on the left and below to draw it together. This is the state of play on 14th August.

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Large Rose 18/08/23

I decided to move everything up a bit and strengthen the overall force of the circular composition. This is after the 18th August.

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Large Rose 25/08/23

I needed to think about it for a while and I worked on the UKSPF project while I did that but felt like it had no presence so I attacked it with white paint and this is what it looks like on the 25th August. It hasn’t changed since but illustrates how you can work your arse off and things will still go wrong.

So I’ve left that for a while, who knows how long, Howard Hodgkin  used to turn his paintings to the wall for two or more years so I’m not going to be in any hurry.

I have a desire to get much simpler with the physical work – I’m also trying to get back to the world building in VR – so I started to work on a new drawing of apples I have in the studio. I see this as part of a sketchbook with AR elements that will include the birdsnest, and drawings of my Doc Martens and the garden at Tickhill Road.

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Two Apples 29/08/23

The first drawing is just the apples on a sheet of white paper and I thought it interesting how the colour balance changed when I added the shadowed wall next to the window.

Wading Through Mud

Two Apples 29/08/23

I’ve completed the UKSPF project bar the publication, the images can be seen in this post “Not Building”  the video is a quick run through of how it works. I might reduce the size of the videos as much as I can.

Drawing

I’ve continued to draw every day;

The August drawings can be seen here

  • Draw Every Day – August 23
    Draw Every Day – August 23
    Draw Every Day - August 23 Continuing to draw every day, in a new sketchbook using sketching ...
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…and the July images here

  • Draw Every Day – July 23
    Draw Every Day – July 23
    Draw Every Day - July 23 Continuing to draw every day, in a new sketchbook using sketching ...
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There is a link to the previous month’s Gallery on each page.

The drawings are posted to Twitter and Instagram each day.

 

Not Building and Building

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Not Building and Building

(Another New Studio)

Lemniscate wave cc sculpture

lemniscate with ribbon sphere

The inherent frustration when making anything has been rearing its head for the last week. I tried to work out a solution to the sphere at the centre of ‘lemniscate wave cc’ and it felt totally unsatisfactory. The problem here is that the sphere doesn’t fit with the forms around it and it appears as if the torus and the flash are simply supports for it. I’m not keen on articulating why things don’t work because I’m never sure I can, but I was left feeling uneasy. As a result I decided to strip the sphere back and paint it with the Tile Red doorstep paint I used for some of the drawings.

Building and Not Building

Lemniscate Wave cc with Front step paint

Torus sculpture made from Lemniscate ribbon sphere

Torus sculpture made from Lemniscate ribbon sphere

I was able to use the paper I stripped off the sphere, together with the scrap from the Doncaster Platonics drawings to build a small torus sculpture that I ought to recognise as an avoidance strategy.

Doncaster Platonics Water (New)

Doncaster Platonics Water (New)

Returning to the Doncaster Platonics [UKSPF Art Grant]. I completed the report for the council and submitted it so I’m waiting for their contact to arrange a visit. I did find that the original drawing for water (the icosahedron) did not work effectively as a target so I replaced it with this new drawing.

Studio 19 July 2023

Studio 19 July 2023

I’ve got the five drawings framed up now, the frames altogether ended up costing about half the grant awarded, and I started work on the unity/vuforia file for the app. There is a small version of the Doncaster Minster  photographs and a quick, jerky, test of the tageting of the dodecahedron for the heavens. The Minster film will have a soundscape recorded in the grounds with the strangely curtailed electronic bells chiming at 12:30 Wednesday.

On days when I don’t go in to the c-view studio I’ve been doing some drawing/sketching in the attic studio at home. As much as anything to keep my hands busy when I’m thinking about the things I’m not achieving.

Drawing of Platonic Solids

Drawing of Platonic Solids

This is a small drawing of the platonic solid models I made at the beginning of the process and below is a drawing of one of the torii sculptures from February.

sketch of torii Maquette

sketch of torii Maquette

To give myself a break from the video editing and Unity work I did another big drawing using Gesture VR with passthrough on the Quest 2.

To give myself a break from the video editing and Unity work I did another big drawing using Gesture VR with passthrough on the Quest 2.

To give myself a break from the video editing and Unity work I did another big drawing using Gesture VR with passthrough on the Quest 2.

Circles Films

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Circles Films

(Another New Studio)

Over the last fortnight I set up the installation area, for the moment a projection room, and played around with using both projectors each throwing to a different wall.

While I was playing with the projections I also produced the first piece of work I’ve made in the studio. A drawing of the birds nest I found when the neighbours trimmed the hedge.

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first drawing in the new studio

A simple charcoal drawing on heavy paper. I made a polycam model of the nest itself

Then later made an AR test with the downloaded obj file. The obj, or format of your choice, can be downloaded here.

I wanted to break up the projected images in the installation and decided to make some large circles to to hang in front of the screens. The images below use a projection of the geranium project film and a new red film made from camera trap captures that came out in shades of red, played in sequence and on a loop.

Circles Films

Red Circles from the right

Circles Films

The geranium film projected onto the large circles

Doing so meant I emptied my portfolio so I displayed the Durer’s solid drawings that are in progress.

Circles Films

The Durer’s Solid drawings displayed in the studio

The video felt too small in the space and I wanted to complicate the surface so I used both projectors and set them with the films overlapping by about two thirds of their width. I added in a line of smaller circles cutting across the space.

Circles Films

Both projectors in the installation overlapping

I have a Vimeo Showcase of film snatches and a longer, 15 min film

There is a gallery page of stills from the  videos

  • Circles Films
    Circles Films
    Circles Films A set of frames from the Circle Films I've been making at the new ...
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And that’s as far as I’ve got