As any would be artist will know the further into the practice of your chosen craft you plunge the more avenues of exploration open up to entice, excite and frustrate you.
I feel I have now established a pretty firm base for the assault on drawing I have been planning for years and actually doing eff all about now and laid a fair; if not modest foundation in terms of drawing production – NOW – I remember quite a few years ago scaling down the size of my drawings to suit the size of my working area; this should only have been a temporary fix for short term problem – problem is it wasn’t short terms and the procrastination begun. Perhaps in the context of my life it had always been a problem but was then graphically illustrated and the spotlight shone on it by a staggering lack of work being produced and any work made was of a minuscule scale.
I digress.
I want to begin to work at the scale that I consider my work to operate best at…large.
I have been working mostly in sketchbooks for years now (very on and off) and only in the last few months of 2014 did I venture out onto paper that could stand alone as pieces in their own right.
Best thing I ever did. It helped me regain a slipped identity and a slightly crushed sense of self worth.
I always thought my drawings had most impact when on a large scale to draw in the spectator who can then discover the more intricate details of my work…exactly what the smaller ones do not deliver in my opinion. Watch this space and I will post some of my progress. Incidentally it is a bit weird that I talk exclusively about my work whilst never posting any; so with that in mind I will endeavour to post some examples. I welcome all comments…actually no bad stuff thanks (joke).
