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Signals – Part One

Hi folks – my focus has been elsewhere so it’s been a while since I painted…

Hi folks – my focus has been elsewhere so it’s been a while since I painted. Yesterday I was goofing around with some new ink based pencils and made this godawful pattern, don’t worry I shan’t inflict it on you. It took me hours to construct and it was total crap. Or was it? You see – what this crap piece of work did was progress me towards a better idea. That better idea is titled Signals – Part One. I hope to evolve this pattern idea further, to me it is something about digital meets analogue, geometric meets irregular. I hope you like it and it is good to be back. This work has been mailed to someone in Tulsa, USA.

Update.

I have relented. I though perhaps it may help to show you the two previous ideas that helped to generate Signals #1. Sorry for the pinky colour – I photographed them in poor light but I hope you get the general idea.

Learning to Paint – Untitled

I was just goofing around with blue and violet and thinking about China and about cameras and about movement. An odd combination of thoughts for sure – and it produced this. Watercolour and pencil on an A5 sheet of 300 gsm water colour paper.

Learning to Paint – Self Portrait

OK, this isn’t a painting, it’s a pencil drawing. It’s a self portrait on an A4 sheet of 180gsm sketch paper drawn using a variety of pencil grades, 3B, B, H and 2H.

OK, this isn’t a painting, it’s a pencil drawing. It’s a self portrait on an A4 sheet of 180gsm sketch paper drawn using a variety of pencil grades, 3B, B, H and 2H. I drew it in a time of pain, both physical and mental, brought on by the death of my Father.