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Elastic band balls are wasteful really; I know I don’t use any bands off mine, I just add to them. I think there should be a worldwide elastic band ball amnesty to bring these unused office supplies back into circulation where they belong.
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Simplified line drawing based on a photo I took several years ago, done with Pen & Ink app on an iPad. I wanted to scale this down and move the photographer into a more spacious rectangle, but Pen & Ink doesn't work yet with iOS8, which I upgraded my iPad Air to too soon, alas. However, apart from that limitation this is such a ... how shall I put it ... a modest effort that I may just zap it away in a few days.
(Meanwhile I can use my iPad Mini 2, which fortunately still uses iOS7, until the problems with iOS8 get worked out by Apple and its app developers. I wish Apple didn't rely on their early adapter users to be beta testers to find the mistakes that still need fixing. But then Microsoft does the same thing with Windows -- and also Slate, which I just read is finally fairly good in its 3rd version.)
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This 3d wall mounted piece is used as a visual deterrent for attendees of the yearly ‘Stop Your Rectangle’ festival.
©The Zwylok Institution
Photo from our group show which was part of the Open Quarter 2014.
A beautiful building, dating from the 1920s, which is now, as you can see, boarded up.
For a full reason why, see Streatham Pulse but short version:
-Streatham has world-famous ice rink and nice swimming baths
-Tesco buy both, promising regeneration when a transport hub is built bringing the Tube to Strreatham
-Tube cometh not.
-Tesco let the buildings rot until the beautiful glass covering the pool is ready to fall in, making the place too dangerous to swim in
-Tesco and Lambeth "consult the public" and ignore everything the public says, and decide to move the rink to Brixton (supposedly for 3 years, but we've no guarantee it's coming back) and just knock down the swimming baths, glass and all
Streatham now has: No rink, no pool, no Tube and YET ANOTHER giant supermassive Tesco that no one wanted in the first place because there is a supermassive Sainsburys and a supermassive Morrisons literally 50 yards in either direction.
Eddie. Fountain pen and Ink (Kala Opal, Iroshizuku Kiri-same and Fuyu-syogun, and Octopus Fluids Green Squirrel) on Fabriano Bristol Smooth.
©2011 Julia Forsyth, RAVEN (before color added), ballpoint pen on paper, 8.5" x 11"
Say hello to the first step of my next linocut! I'm working on a raven print for a commission. Initial troubles, I've had 'em - from getting the steps right to achieve a good transfer to not liking the linocut and starting over from step 1.
This is the re-do of 8 steps that I didn't like. Sometimes you take 8 steps back to get one step forward. But I learned a little more about the process each time.
Now I'm trying to figure out the rhythm of black, white, and grays to bring out this raven's song. Stay tuned!
I was so lucky that Alan Grinberg graciously allowed me to use his amazing, award-winning photo "Raven: Corvus Corax" as my photo-reference for this project. Thanks Alan! You can see more of his photography on Flickr @ www.flickr.com/photos/agrinberg or @ www.alangrinberg.com.
...and now, YouTube! www.youtube.com/user/JuliaForsythArt Get your hot-off-the-presses linocut tutorials!
After a horrid drawing experience the day before, in which i completely ruined my palm tree drawing with a drunken orgy of muddled lines, i redeemed myself with a single-line-only drawing of my backyard. (However, i was still not able to control myself, and 2 hours later, i shaded it in, but i still like this one).
I keep whining about how all my photos have power lines cutting through them. Decided to focus my attention on the lines themselves. I will probably make a public pool for these at some point.
This piece “Untitled 02/01/2022” or nickname ‘Swirls’ is finally complete. Let me tell you, this one was also a struggle to complete because it went against every grain of my being. Drawing it literally felt like rubbing my fingers against wood grain. Let me explain. When I draw, I follow an intuitive process of, “if it feels right, I draw.” This piece came to me as a vision while driving and it took me several sheets of paper to get it to look as close to my vision as possible. I know that this piece is meant for someone in this world and it will feel right to them. It’s energy, however, doesn’t resonate with me – but that does not mean that even under those circumstances I cannot create work for someone else. So here it is, “Untitled 02/01/2022” is waiting for you. For as difficult as it was for me to make, I hope that it finds you easily. Please share this with your friends :)
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Ps, I am going to start shying away from giving my drawings names in order to keep them as pure to their owners as possible. I don’t want to sway anyone’s interpretations of them with my titling. So ‘Swirls’ will be the last nickname I give to an abstract work of art.
I keep whining about how all my photos have power lines cutting through them. Decided to focus my attention on the lines themselves. I will probably make a public pool for these at some point.
The horse (later a tractor) pulled the spinner along. The net caught the potatoes which were them picked up, usually by women, who put them into sacks for market or the store shed of the farm for saving as seed potatoes.
Illustration from a chapter on 'Managing Mobility in African Rangelands,' in the book 'Resources, Rights and Cooperation: A Sourcebook on Property Rights and Collective Action for Sustainable Development,' published in 2010 by the International Food Policy Research Institute for the CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi); ILRI scientist Nancy Johnson was one of four members of the production team for this book (illustration credit: IFPRI).
This panoramic drawing of London, looking west, north and east from the public viewing gallery of the Shard Tower, 800ft above ground level, was inspired by historic panoramas of the city by 17th century artists including Hollar, Visscher, Wyngaerde and others.
The composition is based on photographs I took from the viewing gallery in February 2013 and was drawn freehand with a fineliner pen on Bristol Board and took around 4 months to complete, measuring 105 by 30 cm.
Available as a print in various sizes via: www.thisismikehall.com/shop