Do you ever get an idea and it just feels so right that it is pure joy? Well, while dwelling on the theme of “patterns and textures of life” I was thinking of cut out dolls, praying hands, ripples in the sand. Wow, I remember a picture of my daughter at the beach the last summer she came home to look for work, perfect! I remembered a photo of her doing a little jump in the air at the beach. What a wonderful cut out shape! Now I am looking through photos of the family for cut out patterns that would work as repeat patterns. So I am off and hot on the trail until the next eureka!
My Soap Box
I love the technology age we are in; there is always something to figure out. That said, the simple tools that are a big time saver to me are the photocopy machine, scanner, photo editing tools, I really appreciate and love them. Graph paper way back when was wonderful, but boy am I ever glad I do not have to resize a drawing that way ever again. Sketch an idea turn it this way,that way, shrink, and enlarge at will. Yeah!
Digital photography and exploring photo collage possibilities is extremely fun and invigorating. I love it all, bring on technology. OK, I am not a Romantic about the past in some things. But, the original hand-pulled print in all its legitimate glory as the final crowing result is extremely important to me and my art. The original-hand pulled print is the real drawing/painting of my art. The hand- pulled print is royalty, the king, queen, prince, princess of the print world. It is not archaic, nor is painting and drawing. Remember folks, photography did not replace landscape paintings. Face reality and be honest with ourselves, no one would buy a digital reproduction if they could afford to buy an original painting. As artists, we all need to be proud of what we do, be it original artwork or reproductions of our artwork. The bottom line is honesty!
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This is my Journey wood block; well that is what I am calling it right now. I have not completely made up my mind if it will be horizontal or vertical. For sure there is going to be a 1.5 inch border around the story board, with little objects which again I want to visually tell a story. There are 5 knots in the wood that I am strongly considering turning into eyes. All the rest of the story images will have to work around the seeing eyes. Since my journey started on PEI, I decided to use the “Washed up On Shore” image first. I sometimes refer to the image as “I’d love to be a Blob on the Beach” which is true. So I have not started tracing anything onto the board (in reverse) yet. I need to think some more, because I want the board to evolve over time telling a story. I can make it part of "One with Copper" by inking the board up with metallic copper ink. *SMILE*
This has been Week 20 for "One With Copper"
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