Yey for hunderwasser

I heart Hunderwasser. Last year, a friend had a small and shiny book sitting on their desk..Ever the magpie I had to investigate what was inside. My nosiness paid off as I was given an imaginative visual feast of colour, line and pattern. Although it was his visual style that grabbed my attention at first, Hunderwasser's underlying philosophy has continued to take my interest. I'd like to take more time to investigate further into his beliefs.

When you look at his pictures they just shout...wow nature is amazing and exciting! I especially love how he conveys his love and concern for the natural world -a very serious subject- in a accessible way. His paintings at first may seem slightly childish but his understanding of colour and pattern is very sophisticated. Hurrah for Hunderwasser!

I've been wanting reference work through one of my projects for a while now....I think I may just have my chance. I love how he rejected the use of straight lines in his work due to the fact that straight lines belong to man, not of nature. A really simple idea but one that links his phillosophy with the way he actually draws. I like that.

yey for conte pencils!

I've been using pen and ink a lot this year. I've found it had really helped my find that fine ballance between loose expresive line and accuracy. Today I rediscovered conte pencils...hurrah! It's been nice to break from inks for a while. I forgot that I didn't have a compressed charcoal pencil. Just seems to be working well with what I drew today. Life drawing in the morning creating form through line. Loved it! Thinking for my self motivated study to look a little further into texture and structure of surfaces through drawing for print. Not sure what I'm up for drawing yet....anywhere but that bloody horrible studio! I might even take to the hills!

I'm begining this blog with the best intentions.... hoping I will actually keep it up. I'm also hoping it will keep my writing up to date since I found not writing anything much for two years then having to write essays surprisingly dificult.

I'm even going to try and remember to actually put n capital letters and everything!

So today is a lazy Sunday. I'm going to be modeling for Karen for her project while I attempt to finish off things for my project. Unfortunately after Thursdays presentation I didn't have that 'mission accomplished' feeling you get at the end of a brief. Looks like I'll be having a busy Easter holidays. Its not that I've not enjoyed exploring the amazingness of Tupperware in this project! I'vefound it strangely fascinating, so it shouldn't be too hard to keep going. For my brief I have focused on the most ordinary thing I came across. exploring all the different shapes the structure of the stacks creates. Think I need to go back to my original drawings and do some more prints though.