A lot of V. Note ideas wither because they are just one little thought or artwork, and I don’t have it in me to flush them out into a complete chapter. I’ve been thinking I should post more of these single notes. Here’s one: an automatic writing by Bruno Leyval.
Automatic Writing/Drawing: writing or drawing produced without conscious intention
The part of this I’m ignorant of, the bit that makes my head tilt here, is the typing above the signature. I found this picture on the internet, and I can’t figure out if this is part of the piece or not. It adds a stamp of officialness to the scribbles, and again to the only slightly more intentional scrib-signature, and I notice the placement very nicely breaking the right side boundary, but is the typing part of the piece? Or a label added for instruction? Something else? I imagine the piece without the typing, and I don’t like it as much. It really does make the signature more of a legitimate and serious giggle.
Exercise your creativity This SAL Challenge is a vocabulary based creative challenge every day for January. Materials are artist’s choice. You can draw, paint, sew, collage, sculpt your food, anything you want. See below for today’s creative challenge. Set the timer for 20 minutes and see what happens. ULOTRICHOUS Derived from a Greek word meaning …
One year ago in March, to protect our students and teachers from a new coronavirus, the Seattle Artist League moved our classes online. The virus was declared a national emergency, and we went into quarantine. We have now been in quarantine for thirteen months. Through this year, we have met each other online to draw, …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10799″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Denis Sarazhin is a Ukranian-born painter whose textured works seem to be carved out of rough flecks of color. The angular joints, and compositional habit of using a body’s limbs to divide the background remind me of Egon Schiele. Notice how his style is to start with a dark …
Tennis said he grabbed a crayon at random, and slowly started making a line on the paper. He tried not to think about where the line was going or dictate where it went. He’d just let it go, as if he was watching a bug walk across the page. This “not thinking” thing is difficult …
Automatic writing by Bruno Leyval
A lot of V. Note ideas wither because they are just one little thought or artwork, and I don’t have it in me to flush them out into a complete chapter. I’ve been thinking I should post more of these single notes. Here’s one: an automatic writing by Bruno Leyval.
Automatic Writing/Drawing: writing or drawing produced without conscious intention
The part of this I’m ignorant of, the bit that makes my head tilt here, is the typing above the signature. I found this picture on the internet, and I can’t figure out if this is part of the piece or not. It adds a stamp of officialness to the scribbles, and again to the only slightly more intentional scrib-signature, and I notice the placement very nicely breaking the right side boundary, but is the typing part of the piece? Or a label added for instruction? Something else? I imagine the piece without the typing, and I don’t like it as much. It really does make the signature more of a legitimate and serious giggle.
Other artists that come to mind: Cy Twombly, Mark Tobey, André Masson, Henri Michaux
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