I completed another finished drawing of the Pareidolia series – I think I will call them Rock Faces. This one does not use the acrylic wash and I think I like it much better. I think this will be my final style – I am quite pleased with the way it looks. The thing is that I am really not employing much imagination here at all – the photos I took actually look like these drawings – perhaps I should upload those as well.
Last Saturday I attended a one day workshop on the Camera Lucida at the Manifest Drawing Center. It was very informative. The camera lucida is an old drawing device, consisting of a prism that projects what you see onto the horizontal surface of your paper. David Hockney wrote a book about this device titled, “Secret knowledge: Rediscovering the lost techniques of the Old Masters”.
Each participant received a camera lucida to work with and then take home. The facilitator, Pablo Garcia started a business manufacturing these new devices. He calls them NeoLucida.
It took me about fourteen drawings before I really felt like I had a handle on it. It is a great device for locating shapes in space. Below are the last three drawings that I created using the device – they are the only ones that looked good. We had a nude model to practice drawing with and that was a wonderful way to learn the device. These last drawings also were longer poses so I had more time to spend on them. After the sketches I have posted a photo of the NeoLucida.
Posted below is my second finished rock face drawing based on my summer vacation.
I am still not happy with the acrylic wash that I am using and plan to eliminate it in the next drawing to see how that works.
My work will be in an exhibit titled, “Tactile Abstraction” in the UCBA Gallery this month. I have six collaborative works that are abstract works that I collaborated with David Freeman, a colleague of mine in the Mathematics department. I have three other works that are completely my own. There are two triptychs and one tetraptych. I have posted the gallery announcement and the three artworks of mine below.
