Exhausted after a big day of drawing at the Art Gallery of Mississauga, with probably an even bigger one tomorrow. Big areas are likely to be erased away in order to get a fresh start. (To get the inside scoop, don't forget to ask me what I've been using to erase with!) Tomorrow is my last full day to work on this massive figure (detail only shown above), so the pressure is really on. Of course when I'm drawing I need to forget the pressure (somehow) in order to draw usefully. Just working on a figure this size feels like pressure enough. It can be a little terrifying if I allow myself to think about it too much. I'm glad to say though that there were times today when I didn't think at all; I listened to my music and just felt my way through the drawing. Did some of my best work that way. I hope I spend a lot of tomorrow in that state, in which case I know it will work out. Also tomorrow the support structures for one of my sculpture installations will be installed. Went out this evening with Kal to buy some of the hardware bits for that. So glad to have Kal back home! This drawing requires all of my attention and energy, so Kal assists me by attending to some of the details for the other pieces. Please wish me luck, I am going to need it! PS: On the weekend I will work on the time-lapse photography I've been shooting as I draw, so watch this space! | Working this large (without the aid of projecting an image onto the wall) makes it very challenging to get the figure right, even to make a useful, vital mark. |
6 Comments
6/26/2015 09:50:05 am
Sending you all the good luck you think you might need but I a m sure you won't need any luck at all. You make amazing art--I am looking forward to seeing this project!
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Carol Bromley Meeres
6/26/2015 06:57:42 pm
GOOD LUCK! Have a wonderful time. (Are you erasing with white bread? I'd be tempted to spray white paint over it ...)
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Kim Lee Kho
6/27/2015 11:33:57 am
Thanks for sending all that good luck Cheryl and Carol, I am sure it helped!
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7/24/2015 02:28:30 pm
WOW - Good time lapse - and I see that there is a purpose for white bread after all.
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Kim Lee Kho
7/25/2015 10:28:03 am
Thanks Donna, it was my first time working with time-lapse but I thought that would be perfect for showing how this came together. And yes, white bread isn't much use as a food but it does come in handy in other ways :-)
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