The third installment in the Contours series, West. Lamps over the Williamsburg Bridge.
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Contours, Part II: Houston
Houston is the second installation in my blind contour drawing series that jumped off last week. Looking East from the intersection of Houston & Greene in New York City.
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Contours, Part I: Lamp with Plant
Lamp with Plant is the first installation in Contours, a series of drawings that I’ll be developing over the next several weeks. This series is based on methods of blind contour drawing, which involves drawing contours, or outlines, of forms while looking at subjects, without looking down at the paper or lifting pen from paper. Being “blind” to the drawing process essentially breaks the connection between seeing and drawing and leaves them physically isolated from each other. This makes it necessary to attempt to re-create that connection by focusing on seeing as if you were drawing, and then drawing that vision. Blind contour is often used simply as practice to strengthen the eye/hand connection, but I find the resulting drawings very truthful in their structure, layout, and irregularities. Contours will show my Reflection and Response interactions with various people, places, and things through focused and “blind” studies.
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Yield
Graphite and colored pencil on paper.
Pulled this one out of retirement. Yield.
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BLA-DAOWW
Graphite on newsprint.
BLA-DAOWW!!
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Coffee Shop Sketches
These are three separate sketches of individual folks on their coffee shop grind. I positioned them all on the same page, where they come into closer contact with each other, but stay distant at the same time.
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the Cove
the Cove. Study of a funky tree at La Jolla Cove in San Diego, CA.
This is a section of one of the many trees there that are all gnarled and twisted up. I think all the unusual forms and shapes are really interesting because they don’t look like “regular” trees. Taking it out of context, like the section here, moves it even further from what “regular” trees are “supposed” to look like. A different outlook, complicating the categories.
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Home and Away
The deep archives, part 5. One last look back before we move forward!
Graphite and watercolor on paper.
Home and Away is another piece from my transportation series. Using two very different mediums (pencil and watercolor) always adds a new dimension to the game, new ways to express.
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Three-Wheeling
The deep archives, part 4.
Graphite on paper.
Three-Wheeling was part of a transportation-themed series I created back in 2006.
On a mission.
Keep Pushin’
The deep archives, part 2.
Graphite off paper.
Like my piece Storytelling from last week, this piece also involves a reverse drawing process, but with a slightly different approach. With Keep Pushin’, I started by outlining the figure’s silhouette and shading it all in with a dark graphite pencil. Then I used an eraser to pull out the highlights from the black background and define the face and the clothing. Removing graphite from the paper allowed me to turn the full silhouette into a more defined figure.
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