21/01/18 Black
I did some more work with a sketch I did on Friday, I am trying to increase the blurriness. I am not sure if I can achieve this through greater abstraction. I considered using tools that took away control and would give unintended lines. I feel that my hand is too precise and crisp. It's like a cartoon and not soft enough, not what I am trying to achieve.
I thought about just painting blackness. Blackness can conceal what is underneath even if there wasn't really anything there. Blackness can be through repetition, an action replicated and written over and over until there's nothing left of the canvas.
There's an article in Frieze, Dec '00, pg 78. Paint it Black, Jennifer Higgie on Eva Rothschild. Online: Article.
This brought me to the idea of revealing an image from black in a different way. I've been trying to darken and blur but perhaps if I painted a whole image over with black, then when it dried it would reveal the image. I could black it out completely then give the viewer the responsibility of imagining what they're looking at. She weaves too, 2 conflicting images or just a colour. I'll experiment with this approach as a way of darkening.
free line doodles with ink and pen, lots of water.
Using Vogue as inspiration for figures, the human body but there is an otherness and a nature that isn't quite real.
I want to stick to the black and neon colour palette. Powdery grey mutes the neon too much.
Thought I'd try to use oil pastel to see how they react and appear through the water/ ink.
I thought about just painting blackness. Blackness can conceal what is underneath even if there wasn't really anything there. Blackness can be through repetition, an action replicated and written over and over until there's nothing left of the canvas.
There's an article in Frieze, Dec '00, pg 78. Paint it Black, Jennifer Higgie on Eva Rothschild. Online: Article.
This brought me to the idea of revealing an image from black in a different way. I've been trying to darken and blur but perhaps if I painted a whole image over with black, then when it dried it would reveal the image. I could black it out completely then give the viewer the responsibility of imagining what they're looking at. She weaves too, 2 conflicting images or just a colour. I'll experiment with this approach as a way of darkening.
free line doodles with ink and pen, lots of water.
Using Vogue as inspiration for figures, the human body but there is an otherness and a nature that isn't quite real.
A blacker arrangement
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