Looking forward to Cornelia Baltes’ exhibition Hooloovoo at Aspex Gallery, Gunwharf; If you don’t get a chance to visit then definitely check it out online…
http://www.aspex.org.uk/art/gallery_1/hooloovoo
Last night I made a few more preliminary blind sketches, this time the model posed to reconstruct the Fry photo and I got him to wear the bear head! Anyhow, they were quick sketches, I certainly didn’t spend too much time on them.
Looking at them the next day, really they are just random scribbles… if you didn’t know their context this would be the conclusion anyone would make. In retrospect then, the drawings require much more time and thought, perhaps using a few different pens at any time to describe in detail what is felt. It’s not that I want to make the drawings look like the photograph, rather I feel that they need more about them, more to look at.
In drawings 1 + 2 I can see the contours of the arms holding the bear head…
This weekend I’m planning on finishing this little project with the aim to uploading it to a new web site later on. In my head I have a vision of the original Fry photo, then my reconstruction photo next to it then finally the blind drawing of the reconstruction. Don’t know just yet if I can take it further, just mulling that one over.
I was reading Lee Devonish’blog last night.
He was talking about the requirement for a sketchbook at uni, and particularly having to show development of work ‘in the margins’. It struck a chord because for me, keeping a sketchbook at uni was difficult. Sure there are assessment requirements, but couldn’t there be some room for flexibility? It got me thinking about alternative interpretations of a sketchbook… a photo diary, a digital video diary and how about a blog???
