Collage: Scissor / snip /
cut / slash one’s way, hold, bold,
tentative lay, paste without haste
something new find, sway the mind
from abstraction to abstraction.
Tag: Reality
River Warrior 2
This is the same face as in my sculpture, River Warrior, posted July 24, and of previous photo, Tcup of Edges, and makes an interesting compare / contrast of the end results of quite different modes of perception and creativity.
Tcup of Edges
Searching, reading the tea-cup leaves of memory.
Studio Figure, Male
This figure was drawn in a great rush of strokes of white oil pastel on white paper, with the notion to deliberately obstruct and interfere with “good drawing” from not being able to visually track where the marks were landing.
The drawing was then tilted almost upright and a fat makeup brush was loaded with dark powdered pigment then lightly brushed downward over the absorbent oil pastel for this smashing result. Less than ten minutes, start to finish. It’s a Fillière. Gorgeous also for female studio figures, a technique I invented for myself about forty years ago to loosen up my drawing style. Curiously, it proved to be a great way to increase drawing confidence and at the same time weed out preciousness of approach.
River Warrior
A recent sculpture I made of a friend of mine whom I think of as a River Warrior: each summer, for decades now, he chooses a river, sometimes close by, sometimes in far outlying areas of Canada, and sets off to conquer it in his canoe. His preference of travelling companion is a little armful of over-eager positivity, a white Scotty Terrier named Kate. The agenda this summer is a Great Bear Lake tributary to the Mackenzie River in our Arctic Circle.
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