After a few succesful days in the gallery. I have managed to pull and musclein me neck that or trapa nerve. Its a real bummer. I had been drawing everyday in the same position for 3 hours maybe this has damaged me neck.
Annyway the charcoal drawings I have produced in the last few days have a strong tonalquality to them and at least to of them I am intrested in making larger paintings of. I think the drawings dont quite flesh out everything in the subject I want to explore.
The drawings I am happy with are of Venford resivour on Dartmoor. They sum u the moody atmosphereof the place. the isolation and expanse of the water. This said there is more to these images than that and this is what I wan to explore with more room on canvas and oil.
I like the drawing stage of this kind of work it allows me to find out if the image has more than a simple athetic. If I draw it once and lose intrest then its low on intrest if I draw it again and again then there is something in it that intruges me.
I have a few of these at the moment one is a barn door off its hinges and moved to the side of the barn. The other is the top of the sea with light shinning off it, another i the light down the local estuary/river, others include cloud formations over land and sea. I return to them for different reasons, emotions and intrests. these include different approaches to painting, different moods I am in with my work, how commercial I am needing to be or feel, how lose and experimental I am feeling. At different times of the month i have different practises and I am in different areas of Devon. Moors, estuary, shop, gallery salcombe studio. I guess it depends on what I have seen that informs what I am enjoying investigating. A walkor series of photos might lead to a messy experimental mud painting, a cloud might inspire me to work on the cloud series, a new painting mark might mean I revisit works that reached a crouxs.
These posts help me work the next day. I write them at the moment last thing at night. It gets the days work sorted in my mind and means that I can osely plan the next days work, then sleep better as I feel that the ideas are there and ready to act on when I wake.
Well sleepy time
