On a whim (meaning: not working on any of the three studio projects I feel I ‘ought’ to be working on…), I thought today I’d try something new: drawing in a concertina-style sketchbook directly from film stills. This was inspired by a video on YouTube of a dance piece called ‘Faun’. The two dancers have extraordinary fluidity and strength to their movements. I also love the sturdy muscularity of their bodies.
My paintings and drawings never usually take photos as a starting-point, but when I went to see Jenny Saville’s reproduction drawings series at Gagosian recently, I felt that she’d probably used photography as a part of the drawing process, and it had worked really well. Saville’s work had a sort of true inner muscularity to it, a sort of integrity and authenticity that I don’t often detect when an artist has used a photograph.
Today’s work is not to be compared with Saville’s, for lots of reasons including the fact that it’s on a much, much smaller scale. I’m interested in what I’ve done though; maybe it’s the start of something…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKWXFoLqYeg&feature…
