Garden Drawing
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"Garden Drawing
1", mixed media on paper
48 cm X 35 cm (April
2002)
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| I've
been trying to use more line
in my painting. Lines appear
naturally in my mixed media life
drawing), but are lost under applied colour. Without line
(especially
outline) my vocabulary of painted marks is limited to describing form
and
surface, so I've got to find a way to convey meaning as well.
Both outline and silhouette dominate our ability to recognise things - which must be why silhouettes feature in books on bird and aeroplane spotting! White Garden began as an over-complicated monochrome version of Finger-painted Garden which I repeatedly applied and removed for two days, until the paper began to disintegrate. Finally I lost patience, smeared over the finicky leaves and branches with thick white oil pastel. To my amazement this left soft, descriptive "outlines", which I enhanced by scratching away the wax. I'm now painting from this drawing to see if I can emphasize line - and introduce colour as well. |
