Lovely impressions. I’ve never tried silver point though would like to give it a go at some stage. Just never had the tools. What made you decide to use it Katie?
It was during my MA Kerrryn… I was looking for a different medium. I love the honesty of silverpoint.. and the way it fades and changes to sepia… Drawing is really where I should stay, I am a TERRIBLE painter! I now have the opportunity to make art for a living and wouldn’t you guess… I can’t get my act together! Creativity can be a curse! Help! Your work is so inspiring I’m in awe! x
Oh noes … sounds like the river is polluted/blocked. 8 \ But never fear, nothing is as it seems. We all go through life/death/life cycles, it is only natural and part of our evolution as creative beings, ‘out with the old, in with the new’ so to speak.
You know, the best painters are usually those best at drawing first and foremost, so don’t believe the inner Harpie talk. Pssst, I’ll tell you a secret ~ Painting is Drawing only done in a different (wet) medium and oft times initial raw energy (dynamic) quality marks get covered up/disappear/forgotten in lengthy strenuous laborious workouts. Hold a conscious understanding and awareness of those energies present/absent ie. in the line/direction, colour/tone, shape/form, texture/repetition, etc, being portrayed within a composition, rather than just a focus on ‘labeling’ of content, like tree, house, leaf, whatever. 8 )
One of my ‘psycho’ props is the book ‘Women Who Run With the Wolves’ by Clarissa Pinkola Estes and her Chapter Clear Water: Nourishing the Creative Life “To lose focus means to lose energy.” … "If you’ve lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away and it will renew itself. You need do no more. " Hope this helps somewhat. Otherwise, B mail me if U want, as happy to discuss further. 8 )
Bad thoughts be gone, all will OK, in fact brilliant.
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Lovely impressions. I’ve never tried silver point though would like to give it a go at some stage. Just never had the tools. What made you decide to use it Katie?
It was during my MA Kerrryn… I was looking for a different medium. I love the honesty of silverpoint.. and the way it fades and changes to sepia… Drawing is really where I should stay, I am a TERRIBLE painter! I now have the opportunity to make art for a living and wouldn’t you guess… I can’t get my act together! Creativity can be a curse! Help! Your work is so inspiring I’m in awe! x
– Katie Grubb
Oh noes … sounds like the river is polluted/blocked. 8 \ But never fear, nothing is as it seems. We all go through life/death/life cycles, it is only natural and part of our evolution as creative beings, ‘out with the old, in with the new’ so to speak.
You know, the best painters are usually those best at drawing first and foremost, so don’t believe the inner Harpie talk. Pssst, I’ll tell you a secret ~ Painting is Drawing only done in a different (wet) medium and oft times initial raw energy (dynamic) quality marks get covered up/disappear/forgotten in lengthy strenuous laborious workouts. Hold a conscious understanding and awareness of those energies present/absent ie. in the line/direction, colour/tone, shape/form, texture/repetition, etc, being portrayed within a composition, rather than just a focus on ‘labeling’ of content, like tree, house, leaf, whatever. 8 )
One of my ‘psycho’ props is the book ‘Women Who Run With the Wolves’ by Clarissa Pinkola Estes and her Chapter Clear Water: Nourishing the Creative Life
“To lose focus means to lose energy.” … "If you’ve lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away and it will renew itself. You need do no more. "
Hope this helps somewhat.
Otherwise, B mail me if U want, as happy to discuss further. 8 )
Bad thoughts be gone, all will OK, in fact brilliant.