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All Sorts of Stuff

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(Another New Studio)

Another gap between posts due to being distracted by other things. The Doncaster Platonics app is on track but proving a little difficult for a variety of reasons. As a result I decided to look at the monoprint drawings I did developing from the first set of lemniscates with a view to sculptural work.

All Sorts of Stuff

Finitude 4 drawing

The drawing is from the small set of Finitude drawings  I did in August 2022. Below you can see this large drawing and the monoprint drawing ‘finitude 2’ in the studio.

All Sorts of Stuff

Finitude drawing and monprints in the studio

This is a 360º view of the studio with the framed Doncaster Platonics images on one wall, opposite the view above.

The studio on the 2nd August

These views are of the studio on the 2nd August with the beginnings of a set of drawings playing on the idea of Twombly’s “Untitled(Roses)” made for the Museum Brandhorst in 2008.

These were developed directly onto paper after reading Dean Rader’s “Before the Borderless:Dialogues with the art of Cy Twombly” and the desire to have colour in the studio. The drawings can be seen in this gallery.

Studio Corner on 4th August

The drawings were stretched to hardboard sheets after being work on loose paper, and subsequently reworked. The effects of the water based paints on the loose paper were such that the works had to be re stretched face down to flatten them out for possible display and to see what they really looked like. The view above is from 4th August.

Studio Corner 7th August

Drawing

The July drawings can be seen here

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  • 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 ...
    See photo »

…and the June images here

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  • Draw Every Day – June 23
    Draw Every Day – June 23
    Draw Every Day - June 23 Continuing to draw every day, in a new sketchbook using sketching ...
    See photo »

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

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Not Building

(Another New Studio)

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Standing Nude, Gesture VR drawing using passthrough

I got a new VR program – Gesture VR  that uses 3d scans of models to allow you to practice gestural life drawing in VR (while wearing a headset). Like all digital programs (I might make Art Rage an exception so there will be others) the mark making is pretty rigid and very hard to get variety into. I have done some small drawings in the virtual studio, shown below, but the big virtue of it for me was that I could use it with my Quest 2 with pass through active so that I could see the model in the space while I drew on paper in the studio. The above drawing is my first effort. Charcoal on paper with a bit of white chalk and around ninety minutes.

Gesture VR Life Drawing - Digital Drawing

Gesture VR Life Drawing – Digital Drawing

Gesture VR Life Drawing - Digital Drawing

Gesture VR Life Drawing – Digital Drawing

After finishing(?) ‘Lemniscate Wave cc’ I got an email from the UKSPF Art Grant regarding moderation. I got a small grant from them to produce some drawings with an attached AR element as a downloadable app for smart phones.

Communications of any kind always break into the flow of work so the ‘Redfilm’ and developments of the lemniscates are on the back burner for a while as I resolve the timetable for the ‘Doncaster Platonics’ [UKSPF Art Grant].

Earth

Earth

Fire

Fire

Water

Water

Air

Air

The Heavens

The Heavens

The five drawings will be used as triggers for video/animation about aspects of Doncaster related to the classical elements as listed.

Drawing

I’ve continued to draw every day;

The June drawings can be seen here

  • Draw Every Day – June 23
    Draw Every Day – June 23
    Draw Every Day - June 23 Continuing to draw every day, in a new sketchbook using sketching ...
    See photo »

…and the May images here

  • Draw Every Day – May 23
    Draw Every Day – May 23
    Draw Every Day - May 23 Continuing to draw every day, in a new sketchbook using sketching ...
    See photo »

There is a link to the previous month’s Gallery on each page.

The drawings are posted to Twitter and Instagram each day.

Building

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Building

(Another New Studio)

I made myself a workbench, a little lower than the display bench, and began to make sculpture based on the lemniscate wave developments. The bench is shown fully in the second image.

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o

The view of the studio was taken at the end of the day on the 8th June .

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Studio 08-06-2023

I spent time thinking about the small wave print below and decided to make one of the circles into a sphere and to make the brown paper line widen over its length.

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sphere template

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lemniscate_cc_wave

Lemniscate_cc_wave is the basis of this sculpture, the others can be seen here.

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studio 09-06-2023

At the end of the day on the Day on the 9th June you can see I’ve begun to surface the big zero and the brown paper line and I have the foundation of the spherical form on the display bench waiting to be worked over.

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Dark Studio enhanced

I took a very dark photograph on the 8th, that turned out like this with Photoshop automatic tone, colour and contrast.

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Arranging lemn_wave parts

After the weekend I finished covering the two parts of the lemn_wave. The sphere was a problem and I couldn’t get it to work as I wanted so I had two frustrating days.

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Lemn wave with sphere attempt

You can see one of my attempts here. I was also starting to think about the arrangement of the parts and how they might stay in place.

Given the drying time for glues when the parts were being finished I also went back to the redfilms and hung the circles again.

The redfilms are a found response to climate change, a machine made version of a burning garden with everthing carrying on as normal. It is presented as a double video projection with a fifty percent overlap and the videos starting at different times so that the film changes with each viewing. The films can be viewed on Vimeo.

At the last I decided to use the sections I removed from the ‘o’ to make a spherical shape by crossing the two circles and letting that serve as the form.

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Lemniscate wave cc

I think it works.

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Lemniscate wave cc

I also had a go at a drawing while I was thinking about the arrangement of forms.

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Lemniscate wave cc preparatory drawing