SKETCHES
I have often said that I start painting a new work without knowing where I am going with the image, but I think now it is more truthful to say that I do do a little trial sketch(es) when I have an idea and I explore some type of layout before actually buying the appropriate surface to start the painting. However once a painting starts I feel no problem with changing a layout, colour, idea, or whatever while finishing the piece.
While moving recently I put together a collection of sketches that I didn’t throw out (probably because they so closely resembled the final work) and here are some of them. The ones on blue paper I did when I was standing at the auto-sorting machine at the library, -proof that I can do two things at once.
Only ‘study for Chillida’ has not been realized as yet, though it has resulted in the new collaged paper/tape rounds of late.
Top left to right clockwise:
1) ‘I am-’ on ART 30.
2) ‘study for Chilllida’ will happen someday.
3) ‘not registered (art gun)’ on ART 15.
4) ‘backbreaker’ on ART 1.
5) ‘onomatopoeic’ on ART 14.
6) ‘the mess inside your head’ on ART 8; ‘Derrick-Sun’ on ART 13.
7) ‘the lovers and their excuses’ on ART 6.
8) ‘MMW’ on ART 4.
9) ‘ART IS MASSIVE JOY’ on ART 14.
10) ‘totem-face’ on ART 29.
‘flummoxed’ on ART 18, ‘Louise’s new letter’ on ART ‘?’; ‘my BITCH reach’ on ART 7.
Now I’m considering where to put screws and layouts of different sized panels.
From this pad of paper came the Jazz Portraits, ART 4.
The JP’s are small but when I was drawing these I was envisioning much larger paintings. Still am.
‘elemental for Sol Lewitt’, still working on this one. Sol Lewitt, conceptualist who was an amazing painter and thinker.
‘sketch’
3.875 x 2.625” paper and marker 11.07.21