2nd, 3rd & 5th have especially strong compositions and fascinating use of space.
I keep looking at #5 -- wondering how austere and "disjointed" (not an insult) you can make a picture and still have it work, still be compelling, all the elements still "singing" off one another. I love it.
Have you thought of buying transparent sheets and drawing on them with these sort of abstractions? mixing and matching an assortment over each other could create some unintended compositions that you might really like.
That deleted comment above was from me because there was some atrocious grammar. Fixed, it reads as below...
Jeffrey's comments were especially apt. I really admire the way that, in each of these, there is absolutely not a line wasted. To borrow Jeffrey's term, these may at first seem disjointed, yet each is a seamless whole. Miniature worlds bound only by the edges of the paper. Really really great stuff.
Aeron: I have messed around with transparency paper, but have a hard time using ink and brush on them. I've been doing something similar with scanning different elements and messing with them on photoshop too, but haven't really mastered it yet. I do like the idea of using different color lines on the same piece... On two of these, I took parts I drew in sketchbook and used a lightbox to copy them to the watercolor sheets, which is similar.. Thanks for your thoughts Matt. I think the comment about creating the environment bound by the paper itself is apt. I hadn't thought of it that way, but it's there, for sure. I think this might be a result of not being able to decide if I want to draw a "scene" type environment, or if I want to let go of that and go for abstraction and just deal with the paper itself. Hope that makes sense.. Thanks again.
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Excellent, man. Your best yet.
2nd, 3rd & 5th have especially strong compositions and fascinating use of space.
I keep looking at #5 -- wondering how austere and "disjointed" (not an insult) you can make a picture and still have it work, still be compelling, all the elements still "singing" off one another. I love it.
Thanks Jeffrey. Your note about 5 especially. I'm shooting for that kind of thing.
Have you thought of buying transparent sheets and drawing on them with these sort of abstractions? mixing and matching an assortment over each other could create some unintended compositions that you might really like.
That deleted comment above was from me because there was some atrocious grammar. Fixed, it reads as below...
Jeffrey's comments were especially apt. I really admire the way that, in each of these, there is absolutely not a line wasted. To borrow Jeffrey's term, these may at first seem disjointed, yet each is a seamless whole. Miniature worlds bound only by the edges of the paper. Really really great stuff.
Aeron: I have messed around with transparency paper, but have a hard time using ink and brush on them. I've been doing something similar with scanning different elements and messing with them on photoshop too, but haven't really mastered it yet. I do like the idea of using different color lines on the same piece...
On two of these, I took parts I drew in sketchbook and used a lightbox to copy them to the watercolor sheets, which is similar..
Thanks for your thoughts Matt. I think the comment about creating the environment bound by the paper itself is apt. I hadn't thought of it that way, but it's there, for sure. I think this might be a result of not being able to decide if I want to draw a "scene" type environment, or if I want to let go of that and go for abstraction and just deal with the paper itself. Hope that makes sense..
Thanks again.
Very beautiful! The greenish brown is fascinating and very soft. Does the H stands for hospital? Strangely I see a breast in the last picture.
Not sure about the H's. I like that letter. It has some kind of evil quality to me..
These are outstanding. I wish I could see them larger.
Thanks Scott! Check out my flickr account for larger images.
man, you've been chasing that graphic dragon for a long time now, and with this batch you got him to bring you the newspaper and your slippers!
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