Friday, 22 June 2018
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Tuesday, 19 June 2018
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
Spotlight: Don’t throw it away!
Randomness can be a very constructive liberating force in art. You can draw the curve that is there, rather trying to draw the curve you think is needed. You can make something appear more real, if your style is rather more systematic or rigid than life. Art is not the real thing, but an impression of it, so it makes some sense to draw shadows. In times of inspirational need, The Lord or Karma provides. Pretty soon you will be practised at making forms based on anything you find inspiring.
And
it is a form of recycling. Throwing things away, and making a
performance of it, can be very useful. Gordon Ramsay swears by it.
Why
do faces so readily appear in the drawings people make based on
crumpled paper? Why not trees or houses?
Lascaux, France
In
prehistoric caves, most paintings, and sculpted pieces of bone and
tusk and clay, depict animals. They are of horses, reindeer, rhinos,
mammoths… They are on walls, and in carved pieces of animals, and
in wall reliefs. Human figures are less frequent.
Venus of Galgenberg
However, outside
of cave settings, most prehistoric sculptures are based on humans
rather than animals. Why is that? The answer is simple: it is not
true. Archaeologists simply find more human-based figurines, because
a stone-like thing, when shaped a bit like part of a person, catches
our attention. Whereas a stone-like thing shaped a bit like part of
an elk will just look like a stone to us.
'Elk' - Sally Matthews
Elks would probably find
more elks.
It depends on what you notice. Most meteorites that are
found by observing them fall, as flares of light that hit the ground
and are found smoking on scorched grass, are “stony” meteorites –
the type which have low iron content. Few of them turn out to be the
iron-rich “stony iron” meteorite variety.
Similarly in the
desert, most meteorites found are “stony”. However, among the
cold meteorites found in prairies, most are “stony irons”, which
suggested that meteorites fall differently in deserts. It took a
while for astronomers to realise why, outside of deserts, most
meteorite finds are “stony irons”. “Stony” meteorites look
like stones.
A chap (Robert Ward) who has found a stony iron. In America.
So
it is with crumpled paper: we favour the familiarly noticeable, which
is typically a human face.
And
if you don’t like what you’ve drawn, you know what to do.
'Chance and Order IV' - Kenneth Martin, 1971-2
Sources
include:
‘Drawing
with shadows’ - Guy Larsen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbsbQGTSIFk
Saturday, 9 June 2018
Ludlow Fringe Artists Market
Saturday 16th June, Castle Square, Ludlow. This might be of interest either to individual artists or perhaps small groups of artists. There's more information here. Click on the info sheet and booking form below for more details. I understand there are no gazebos left, so you will need to bring your own.
Tuesday, 5 June 2018
Sunday, 3 June 2018
James Hurdwell at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Ludlow Art Society congratulates member James Hurdwell for having had one of his paintings accepted for the Royal Academy's 250th Summer Exhibition.
We wish him every success with the new avenues that are opened up by being involved in such a high-profile exhibition. You can find details of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition here with a short video about the show:
We wish him every success with the new avenues that are opened up by being involved in such a high-profile exhibition. You can find details of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition here with a short video about the show:
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