Life Drawing and mobile art
What is it about drawing that brings us back all the time to the studio for Life Drawing? Last night I went to the monthly class at Delta Studios expecting no more than maybe three or four people, after all it’s the middle of the holiday season and it was a very hot sultry evening.
Instead twelve of us turn up.
There is something in human nature, almost primeval that craves the desire to make marks.
For three hours I worked just using a piece of pastel and some wet paper towels.
Fast-forward today to the 21st century. The mark making may be the same but the method of distribution and consuming of those images is very different.
I have just converted them into a digital format for distribution on mobile phones, blogs, Twitter, Flickr and Facebook.
OK the art is not that great – just the stuff you get from any Life Class- but the method of viewing those images is novel.
Meanwhile the originals hang on my studio wall..
PS did you realise that Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are less than six years old? Scary isn’t it?
