Stephen Fry with Care Bear Head
The blind drawings went well, I decided to use the old wallpaper up and make it life size. This one here was only a ten minute sketch but actually needed longer… more time for detail, but when you are asking people to pose for you, you’re stuck with their time constraints. It almost came out as I had hoped.
I’ve said it before but this method really frees up your hand, in your mind you can visualise what your marks are but it’s always a surprise as to how messy it is when you finally get to look.
I like the way it’s messy. It makes me think of a naughty child’s drawing on the wall. It’s a drawing devoid of responsibility – the knowing mark making process has been removed and replaced with guesswork.
I have two separate pieces developing for this project which is interesting: the blind drawings and the photographic re enactments. Now I have to decide exactly what to do with them. In the past I’ve been prone to over complicate work by exploring too many options, which is really about losing focus. So now I’m out of my comfort zone, time to make decisions and focus back in on what this project is all about and what I want it to be.
