Friday, February 22, 2013

Drawing Gallery


   A Drawing Gallery? But, that's not glass! No, it does not have to do with glass, but it is a secondary art form that I have been practicing for 9 years now.

    These drawings are all hand drawn and colored. They are characterized by bright colors and clean lines that sometimes follow geometric shapes although they tend to stay more organic. These drawings are made in a very specific way. They're all done on recycled cardboard. This is a great way to reuse resources, such as notebooks, that once done with would be thrown away. All lines are first drawn in with a black pen with ink that does not run when covered with a marker. Then, once the lines are drawn I begin coloring. I use only Sharpies; over time I have collected over 50 colors. None of the same colors ever touch one another. While most of the drawings are abstract, literal elements do come in. Hands, hearts, animals such as birds, ants and snails, suns, moons, flowers, trains, trees and of course korus all tend to make repeated appearances in many of my drawings.

    All the drawings also tell a story either of a time or a place or a class that I have taken. While in school I worked on one drawing per class and when traveling I did the same. Each drawing has references to the specific event during which it was created. When I was a child I loved the I spy books and have created such small details in my drawings to make it always a surprise what you will find next, these are meant to be pictures that you will come back to time and time again and always find new elements in them. You can try to find all these stories yourself, or if you are wondering about a specific piece please feel free to e-mail me questions. Also, I will soon have prints of each drawing available for purchase.

 

 

Friday, February 8, 2013

    Cold working (cutting, grinding, and polishing) my new sculptures is a slow going process. While I have removed all the plaster from the peices, I only have the main sprews (air vents to let the glass into the sculpture when it is melting) cut off of one of my peices. After this it is a long process to remove the rest of the excess glass and to do the final smothing out of the surfaces. It is work that requires patience and a steady hand.

    While I may spend a lot of my time working on this, it doesn't exclude me from working on other projects! I just bought 50lbs of clay and sculpting tools so that I can start working on the model for my next sculpture. I plan for this one to be almost double the size of the original series! The use of clay to sculpt this new model instead of wax may cause a difference in surface texture to the piece, but in return it allows of the piece to be made quicker and easier than working so big in hard wax would allow.