'Glengallan Morning' 600x 450
Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Friday, 14 February 2020
Self Portrait with Chicken
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Another work in my series of abstracts in which I was experimenting with eliminating skilled marks from my drawings. It began as a panel covered uniformly in charcoal, which I took to my neighbour’s and placed on the ground in their chook shed. A random erasure took place when seed was cast on the surface. The process took about ten minutes.
I spent the next six months working on the tonal balance of the drawing, while trying to avoid any new marks or erasures. Eventually some figuration suggested itself and I decided to go with it, something I’d avoided doing in the other drawings. It was then glazed in several layers over a week.
“Self Portrait with Chicken” 900x600
Two steps in the process, starting with the chicken’s contribution -
After six months of tentative drawing -
Wednesday, 5 February 2020
Glengallan
Thursday, 6 February 2020
Had a hot but rewarding day working with Warwick High students at Glengallan last Monday.
“Glengallan Victorian” 450x600