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Water patterns w Drawing Carl app. Need to try on iPad w stylus - my fingers felt clumsy on my phone w/o a stylus!
This drawing was inspired by the gorgeous pic taken by Christine Majul of a silver laced wyandotte at the Puyallup Fair.
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I luuuuv my new signed Luke Dixon Bearhug print! Can't wait to get Queenie framed!
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Lugano Miss Borealis the northern crown krone göttin unter den sternen am strand hier in lugano, nachts, ein edelstein, take me learn to play in this dark, königin bis in den morgen among all this stars
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While I was in Jeff Eitzman's chair having a back molar reconstructed, I was drawing a portrait of him at the same time.
Because of that, I kept moving my head. And Jeff had to keep nudging it back into place.
So I came up with this invention... a strap that goes over the patient's head, with a massive handle to give the dentist leverage to manhandle the head into the exact position the dentist requires the head to be in.
Neat, huh?
Jeff laughed at the idea. But said it was unnecessary.
Well heck... just cos HE'S kind and compassionate to his patients doesn't mean OTHER DENTISTS aren't brutes, right?
Let's make MONEY out of this cruel device!
These four pics started out as black and white drawings in my PaperBlanks Moleskine-substitute notebook. I drew them while Jeff was working in my mouth. The colour-work came later, in PhotoShop CS3.
©2011 Julia Forsyth, ANDREW JACKSON'S DIGITAL HOLIDAYS, 8 1/2" x 11", Original drawing colorized through Microsoft Paint
Since drawing in a Blind Contour style naturally leaves lots of spaces connected by lines, it lends itself to color. I actually thought I would save time over "Old Skool paint and paintbrushes" if I imported my #Draw365.38 drawing (www.flickr.com/photos/juliaforsythart/5451382802/in/photo...) into the Paint program loaded onto most PC's and used the icon that looks like it's painting in the fastest way possible - dumping a whole bucket of paint out at one time.
So I loaded my drawing into Paint and started what I thought would take 30 minutes tops. Surprise, surprise...4 hours into it, I was laughing non-humorously at myself and my gross underestimation. I could have done a front-and-back drawing of $10 and $5 in the time it took me to work on this!
Surprise, surprise - indeed. One surprise was that the dumped color came out all "dry-brush" looking. I remember my watercolor professor telling us that it's called a holiday when you make a watercolor brushstroke on your paper but just a few tiny resistant white dots of the textured watercolor paper don't get colored.
Another surprise was that somehow, once my drawing got loaded into Paint, the black lines from the original drawing lightened to a dull gray. Bright colors from paint (in Paint) made the lines look even duller, so I had to retrace most of them painstakingly (hello tedium!) with a black Paint-created line. If you've drawn a Bind Contour Drawing lately, you know that there are a TON of lines. I got really bored really fast doing careful retracing, so I compromised and left some of the lines gray. (Official Party Line here: It's to add greater contrast between the black and the gray lines.)
This reminded me that there are certain nuances that just don't translate as well in a computer drawing. I miss the brushstrokes. I know that there's a way to have some simulated brushstrokes, but even so, it's just not the same.
LIke any good experiment, instead of simply answering things and calling it a day, this experiment fed my mind more ideas that I never would have had without stretching a little bit creatively. This experiment made me curious about 2 future experiments: how a Blind Contour Drawing would look drawn ever-so-lightly in pencil, then watercolored, then adding the black lines back in with thin watercolor strokes. 2nd experiment: make a Blind Contour Drawing on a canvas using an acrylic graffiti paint pen that's formulated to have those cool runny paint rivulets from the drawn strokes. Then unleash the color on it with acrylic paint.
Admittedly, those ideas that came from this experiment are about as different in creative approaches as both of my kids are in their approaches to just about everything (EXTREMELY!), but in my mind's eye they would both be very successful using their own strengths.
I'll see how reality matches up with a project completed only in my mind's eye. ;) Watercolor VS. an almost grafitti-like grittiness to acrylic painting approach - don't change that dial.
(And of course, regular acrylic/oil want to get in on the action too. Also, who could resist when aluminum foil asks so convincingly to join in? Aluminum foil punctuation is so DAMN hard to resist - you try it! Luckily, there's room for all of them in THIS inn...c'mon over!)
Holidays, anyone? Why yes - I'll take a whole project of 'em.
So, I spent a few hours getting all the paper off from the drawing transfer. There are a few liftoff spots, but not on the more complicated parts. Easy to redraw.
Carving started tonight, and I chose the hardest part first. I have about 1-2 more days of carving on the face, and then to dig into the other parts. Feels good to have a carving tool back in my hand!
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©2012 Julia Forsyth, Internal Tattoos, red block printing ink hand printed on acid-free paper, 5 inches by 8 inches
I've been experimenting away in my color laboratory today. I really like the "too much is just enough" effect with the red ink! The three yellow ink prints were a total flops - boo. And the two red ink printed on french text experiments bombed too. But I'm happy with the red and the raven print together on this paper for Internal Tattoos.
You can take the girl away from the color, but you can't take the love of color away from the girl...
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©2011 Julia Forsyth, JEFFERSONIAN FUNK (HEY LADIES), 36" x 24", Acrylic and aluminum foil stars on canvas
Let's talk beginnings. I mean way, way back - this painting has some history creatively from whence it came.
Our kids each received a $2 bill as part of their Christmas presents from their grandparents several months ago. Not being quite as impressed as they should have been with the unique dollars (since they weren't shiny new toys to rip open and break before the day was over), these $2 bills just sat around on my kitchen counter for a while.
I looked at them several times a day as I passed through the kitchen. The more I glanced at the $2 bills, the more I felt connected to them. (Kinda strange, I know...but TJ has that kinda passive magnetism that's difficult to resist.)
I also embarked on a daily drawing challenge on Twitter called #Draw365. Like most resolutions, my output was SIGNIFICANTLY higher in January than in May, but anyway...ahem. I picked up their two dollar bill and really looked at it closely. There's so much to see when you're looking hard, like a detail detective going over a scene for anything you haven't seen before. And that's the whole dang thing!
Switching modes from "slightly registering in my brain little more than a match to a pre-existing basic color, size, and shape match to what holds the spot in my brain for a $2 bill" to "okay, gonna detail-hunt the heck outta every inch of this" is what I do when I start a drawing. So the drawing started, but my pen stayed still. The detailed looking is always the first part of my drawing process.
Gracefully crisscrossing palest-green sinews expanded and contracted into intricately-woven tapestries contrasting delicately again the darkest-green background of the two dollar bill. But this tapestry is like the meat of the border sandwich that the $2 bill sports. It kept my attention as I noticed that it has an outer border and an inner border. The outer border is smaller, more orderly, right-angled...but take a look at the inner border! I just found the excitement in Bordertown. Lots of movement, symmetry without the boring, I think this border mastered the Tango right before it applied for the job.
And that Tango movement really inspired me, as did the dude on the bill. I had to read his banner to remind myself that, "Oh yeah. It was Thomas Jefferson." But I couldn't remember much about him.
So I hit Google. I found out a lot about him. This list hit most of the high points: www.toptenz.net/top-10-facts-about-thomas-jefferson.php. Gotta admire a sloppy-dressin', skeert of public-speakin', wine-guzzlin', violin-playin' Playa who hurt his voilin-playing hand - permanently! - trying to impress a lady. He also didn't mention that he was a US Prez on his tombstone because he had "mixed feeling about politics" after his two terms.
He had so many wonderful achievements and was incredibly intelligent, but he was a complex man of contradictions. I found him relatable in a lot of ways, and cringe-worthy in others. That contradiction in itself makes him relatable, too, when I look back at some of my better and not-so-great choices I've made, too. It was really interesting to learn about him and his history pre-painting.
So, to back up a little and tie up this painting's evolution, it started with the $2 bill gift, which I eventually drew as part of #Draw365 (it was drawing 52) www.flickr.com/photos/juliaforsythart/5469791730/in/photo..., then that drawing became this painting, Jeffersonian Funk (Hey Ladies.)
So grandparents, if you happen to read this, I think the kids would be fascinated with a $100 bill next Christmas...just a thought.
©2007-2012 Julia Forsyth
Here's #Draw365 in action - take a stroll down memory lane through my new biz cards from moo.com - love them!
I'll be at Art Walk 2012 - Arts in Bloom - through the Laura Moore Fine Art Studios, 107 S. Tennessee, McKinney, TX 75069 on the Square. Just look in the tent and find me! I'm one of 15 artists there, and I'll be selling work from 10-6 this Saturday, March 14. Come by and say hello! Did I mention I'll also be doing a giveaway...? :)
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Yep. That's what I want to be. Then I could draw and sculpt all day, and not have to worry about annoying things like sleep. Or potty breaks. http://moby.to/ii1kit
knowledge is power and knowledge is more none knowledge as knowledge is the objectivity of understanding that we cannot understand ist die verfluchte wahheit dass jede wahrheit immer nur die warheit einer wahrheit ist eine lüge ist
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Beginning of the Coco Collins drawing of my friend's favorite chicken. Gonna carve it into a linocut for #printoctober when I'm finished drawing #draw365.296.2 #drawing #pen #pendrawing #art #sketching #dailysketch #blackandwhite #chicken
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