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Monday, 30 January 2012
What is Art Part 1.
What is Art? Hmmm big question this time! Art is subjective, so, this answer has to be subjective too, my opinion on art is not necessarily another artist's opinion. So, where to start, well the beginning is a tad hard to find, the Lascaux hand paintings were our ancestor's way of enrich their environment. This is, of course, an educated guess. What I would want to do in a place that did not have an interpretation of my feelings and inspirations? I would try and find a way to create an external representation of these feelings.
Humans have always changed their environment and not always for the best, but some of us do want to leave a lasting impression of a positive interaction. Are the hand print and animal drawings maybe a trophy, a diary of what they did that day, a representation of the animal for their ability to survive another day? Unless we were there the answer is subjective and we can only go with our own feelings.
The experiences we all have while getting to this point in time defines who and what we are and therefore defines what we create with our artistic personality. So in the Upper Paleolithic era (17,300 years ago), the artist would have a vastly different number of experiences to the artists of the day.
Some of the paintings are hidden away in caves which makes me wonder if the artists were hiding their talent in case of prejudice. In a society where finding food and surviving day to day was so important, would it have been seen as a waste of time and energy creating such beautiful work? Why would our ancestors be any different than us and we are full of prejudges.
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
What I find hard to do!
This is a hard blog to write, mainly because you have to admit what you can not do, to write about it. My shortfall is hands, I have always had trouble getting the shapes and shading right! Well since I have had the time and inclination to put the work in to get the hang of my nemesis:).
Well as you see above this drawing is of Grant Mcconnell from a Scottish band called "The Picts". I did ask permission before doing the portrait. https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Picts/167712023288641?ref=ts
I saw this image on their Facebook page and wanted to draw it for a while his expression is wonderful and the composition is great, I am jealous of whoever took the image:) BUT I was dreading doing it because of my nemesis:( and the position of the fingers was worrying me also!
I bit the bullet and started the drawing and well I think it went quite well in fact, and with all the drawing I have been doing lately I did not seem to have the problem I had in the past, I was working myself up into a lather for no reason! So the lesson I learnt with this is that the old adage is true practice, practice and then practice some more:)
Saturday, 3 December 2011
Your heart
This is the hard side of what I do! Hang on a minute hi to new readers and a sorry to those who follow because I have not blogged for a while, I am here now!
Right back to the blog in hand, I have been busy completing a series of portraits (see above for one and http://www.flickr.com/photos/ajax66/sets/72157622912398199/ for the others) I have another one in this series on going but have frozen with it because, tomorrow I am being taken to a gig where these guys are playing! The group is called The Picts and they play folk rock and are very good (http://www.myspace.com/thepictsband ) have a listen! Well back to the subject, they have persuaded me to bring my sketchbook and camera with me and the hardest thing for me as an artist is to let the person of the portrait see the work.
My heart goes into my work and so each image is part of me, I am putting my heart on show and well, sometimes I feel folk just say nice things and do not want to hurt my feelings, mind saying that, I know which images are not quite right and I think those are the ones I feel not so secure about. so think of me tomorrow when these images will be scrutinised.
Sunday, 6 November 2011
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