Jane Horton

Love the simplicity and composition of this drawing.

(Source: eatsleepdraw, via sisifo)

This selection has a bit too much black I think, and fewer formal elements to grab hold of, but I might try working with this one too.

This is more like it, there are some interesting marks here including part that looks like a fish or bird eye. It’s cleaner and simpler. I wonder if this is how Kandinsky worked ? I had him in mind once I got going with my image. I found it hard to start, but really got into it once I had a couple of layers to add to.

I picked three area of the image to consider. This is too large a selection with too much going on.

The next part of the exercise is to pick a small selection of the image to create another image. So, I prowled around the image picking sections with viewfinders, and then digitally cropped the best composed selections to choose one to work from.

This image, which I have called Directions, was created as part of an exercise to produce an image intuitively by listening to a piece of music: in this case Bach’s Lute Suite in E Minor played by John Williams. The image was created with Brusho powder/crystal colours, Indian ink, wax and bleach.

berndwuersching:

nivbavarsky:

Tiger (2011) - Gouache, ink, flashe on cardboard

Happy new year all, plenty of new working coming in 2012.

-Niv

Niv Bavarsky

(via judithbfarr)

So I’ve used Brusho inks to colour it in, and purposely used them very loosely and allowed them to merge. I flicked ink onto the picture to give the impression of a wet day. I left the foreground empty so that words can be used in this space. I think maybe I’ve made this too messy. Still, I enjoyed doing it.

Here’s the same image done in pen and ink. Not interesting enough in black and white I don’t think.

I’ve now fiddled with the colours and rounded the edges of the trees so they didn’t appear so cut off at the edge and added some words to the picture which focuses attention on the two figures in the background rather than the central figure with the brolly. I think this colour palette works better and makes it a more striking image. The choice of font was deliberate: I wanted it to look like a sentence in a story and have an old fashioned ‘typed’ look seems to work.

I mistakenly blogged all these exercises on a old Tumblr blog I have called Nooseoflight which is why they appear, well they have been’ reblogged….(just in case this little detail bothered you ;-)

Here’s the first illustration I did of the image I’ve chosen to work with… I’ll try a pen, ink and gouache or watercolour image, and maybe some collage and see where it takes me. This one I purposely left the foreground white, to add text and was conscious to leave white areas at the top to balance it too. I wanted to keep the scratchy diagonal lines to suggest rain and wet. I realise now that it would be great to have the tree complete so that its not cropped at the top and the left side, this is something I must learn to do, not be constrained by the paper edges which I now realise I am very used to and comfortable being constrained by.

(Source: nooseoflight)

Here’s another crop that I considered using. It is interesting that it is possible to gain a variety of types of scenes and meanings by cropping an image with quite a few elements in it. The image has both hurried, busy elements and quiet tranquil aspects.

This is the cropped image I liked best, I think because the umbrella stands out in both shape and colour and there are a lot of verticals to play with.