Thursday 15 April 2010

Tree Symmetry


This is one of those repetitive pattern drawings you do when you're in a spaced out zone.  I go there when my brain needs to switch to a different frequency.  Often happens around the midnight hour, at the desk with dim lighting or in bed when I'm kinda sleepy and have my contacts out.  Music in the background helps send you to that place.  (My embarrassing choice is often my mix tape of Guns 'n' Rose and 80s soft rock songs - In the Burning Heart - that sorta thing.  I know it so well it just trances me out sometimes). 


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Bird Skullduggery

  

This is a page from one of my sketchbooks. I've just been scanning through them for inspiration (funny to think that I'm inspiring myself with my own work?).  Looking at past work helps bring me back to that First Point of inspiration; I can revisit anything I didn't have time to explore.  Sometimes the work is a bit bleurgh, but with this particular sketchbook I really enjoyed making my marks onto the paper with my biro pen.  Normally set aside in favour of using a "superior" ink fine-liner, I felt compelled to put it to the test.  After all; it saw me through many many years of elaborately graffiti-ing my notebooks and folders in the classroom and lecture halls.  I like these scratchy studies of bird skulls and bones.  They are super delicate subjects to study.

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