Sunday, May 22, 2011

bits

of my sketchbook.
old (think last summer):






new (think last week):
acrylic

pencil and gouache

bonus:
white acrylic paint on black illustration board, and then chalk pastel on top.

lately artmaking has become an extension of an impulse. i have little desire to make thought-out and deliberate pieces and find myself drawing and painting much more out of a feeling or an immaterial gesture. i am happy for this change. i think this is how i should have began as an art student: not studying and conquering concerns of technique but drawing and painting purely for play. i look at my portfolio now and it is so devoid of creativity, and i think about myself and am disturbed by my ingrained limitations and the constant rehashing of the same thoughts and ideas. in the past year i have been realizing all of this, and while i have been first working on overcoming fears and limits in thought, it is now time to move on to overcoming fears and limits in action.

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