Figures Fillière 1(b)

This is page 35 from Figures Fillière 1, available at amazon.com / books / Scott Fillier

It is one of a number of faces shown in the book and drawn in many different media, to demonstrate in this instance, that a mechanical drafting pen can be used to produce a landmark and powerfully expressive image one doesn’t usually associate with the output of that pen. All the more reason to investigate its off-beat potential.

The left-hand page of this two-page spread is of US President Jimmy Carter as the perfect opposite in personality type, and, in drawing tool effect.

Figures Fillière 1

This is page 29 from my recently published Figures Fillière 1.

It explains the processes, thought and sculptural, whereby this sculpture in wire, plaster, and plasticine of E. B. Fillier now exists. The black and white photo, since it lacks colour cues, is especially intriguing as its presentation of reality challenges the perceptions of many viewers, who knew and were pupils of this teacher, to ask whether this isn’t a photo of the subject rather than of the sculpture itself.

Book is available at amazon.com /books / Scott Fillier.