Looking forward to getting involved with this years LAT – particularly with 100sqft but also with the great ‘let’s fill leytonstone with art’ which encourages individuals in the borough to display artwork in their windows.
Sounds like a great idea and a great opportunity to play with the lightbox idea on a large scale!! looking forward to see what people show!
And the effect with the light on… you can see the stamp and circular mark made by the wax embossing stamp along with the address information, and writing…
I think this could make an interesting concept for a project allowing the piece to change depending upon the lighting conditions – whereby in the day the images reflect normality and at night they reveal the full picture…
After visiting the fantastic drawing exhibition at the British Museum I was particularly struck by the effect of lighting on some of the double sided glass frame pieces. I noticed that as people moved about the gallery obscuring the light on the backs of the frames it enabled the viewer to see either one or both sides of the image simultaneously. I thought that would be a great way to display the postcards that Royal Mail had managed to get back home safely. – This image shows the housing which contains one of the postcards, it is fitted with a pull cable light attached to a washer …. kind of a miniature lightbox
Going to entrust these to royal mail to see how they journey ….
Just hope they find their way back home safe
Had little time to be creative with organising the next 100sqft launch but wanted to post some postcard scribbles from this evening – think I might send them out randomly through the post tomorrow ….
I am calling this piece a study but I don’t suppose it is – very rarely am I drawing from life at the moment – all sketches so far for this piece have been from my head, but i like something about the style of botanical illustration that is leading me to think I should take a sketchbook out or a pad and make some small drawing studies of plant life. Almost frightened to say that I like the way this is developing but i have become a bit too precious with the piece – ideally this would combine with automatic mark making and figure drawing from imagination but I’m skirting around the issue of taking it in that direction.. we’ll see where it goes…
Reviewing yesterday’s drawings always seems slightly more satisfying. There are elements that have appeared from the marks that I am pleased with and 2 of the large scale pieces seem to have escaped from the restraint of those made earlier in the day. After posting yesterday’s pieces i began work on a more detailed piece exploring leaf forms in place of muscle structure, so I’ve included a couple of images to start things off for today…
More of the same and a quite frustrating day, feeling a lack of direction and having real trouble with the scale of work. Much more comfortable with smaller scale pieces today and seem to be obsessed with the details of images rather than the whole. . . .
Well the nibs arrived so I thought I’d have a quick scribble and write, the holder for a copperplate nib for the uninitiated is offset at a strange angle and takes a bit of getting used to – the effect from the nib is quite nice though and does alter the marks made quite dramatically, tomorrow I will attempt some pages of automatic writing to see how it feels with a dip pen.
A couple of small studies experimenting with new inks – & I also found out today that the new set of copperplate writing nibs are on their way in the post to experiment with so i’m looking forward to seeing what effect these have on the work. Quite pleased with the studies but really need to begin work on some larger pieces with more impact. The thinking at the moment is that I will combine floral patterns with a theme of harvesting and gathering.
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