Drawing
Still not drawing very frequently in recent weeks, but continuing to feel plenty of motivation to pull back into habits & frames of mind in which being someone who draws is a continual preoccupation. (As, it seems, is Mrs Irani, as you'll recognize if you've been checking in on her lately.)The human skull study is the exercise to stay attached to and, at the same time, push off from – that's my strong feeling. Pictured, a little one done a few days ago (while sick & confined to my room, between extended bouts of sneezing & filling trash with Kleenex). There's enormous satisfaction in finding my way to the skull studies again, in feeling myself pulled to the particular stimulus & focus they represent. I don't have time here for the discussion I feel the subject deserves, unfortunately. I hope to come back to it before long.
One thing I suppose I ought not to leave altogether unsaid is that this sort of exercise doesn't in the least reflect, for me, interest in death symbology, the gruesome, the macabre, or even the merely bizarre. I've never been wired that way. No strong taste for ghouls, 'crypt-keepers', slasher flicks, goth punk, or the venerable gothic romance. I hope I can avoid leading anyone who looks in here to think otherwise.
I've added a page of old sketchbook skull studies in the gallery pages inaugurated a couple of months ago, and will probably put up more before long. There's a good deal there to rebuild habits on, if I can get myself together to take advantage of it.
posted by paul bowman @ 12:00 AM
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NOT that there's anything wrong with the gruesome, the macabre or even the merely bizarre (or maybe the Jesus People have been holding an undue influence on me - again). :)
Oh! to be sure — nothing wrong with all that ... I don't myself, you know, but I like to think that what a man does in the privacy of his own home, you know ... After all, who among us is to say what gruesome or macabre really are — you know.
: )
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