New work, Sea Pottery, Ostraca Portraits and Wood Drawings.

Saturday:

Above is a drawing that I completed in last nights drawing session and I am pleased with the result. it is yet another spin on my obliterarty drawings 28th in my latest unfinished book.

 Above is a drawing that I started last night but it didn't seem to be finished so in some gaps today I may have finished it of, however it might not be quite finished but at the moment I am satisfied.

Above is the 30th drawing in the same book as is finished.

Whilst finishing and starting drawings in my book I also managed to do these sea pottery drawings that contribute to my 'art drops' I really enjoy coming up with new ideas for the small works and it does feed in to my other work. I enjoy doing them and then placing them out and about for people to happen upon them spreading a little happiness and free art.

Today myself and my wife Zoe Eaton have been manning Barnoon Workshop as part of our pop-up portrait studio and above is one of my 'ostraca' works that is my contribution to that experience. We had a few people in today which was nice but with the footpath past the workshop we didn't have as many as we could have. We are 'promised' that this footpath will be open by next weekend and that will certainly help bring in more people to our 'pop-up portrait studio' and to the full program of  events and workshops that we run at Barnoon, this is how we make a living along with our own art sales.
After we had finished today at Barnoon we went off to Olives Cafe on Island Square to add a little information to the work that I now have hanging there. Adrian Olives owner wasn't there when we arrived but the lady who was in charged today told me how much she liked my work and that their customers had been talking about them today. Considering they are abstract works on wood they fit in with the other work there very well indeed I am both happy and slightly surprised how well they work in the space, I hope they find nice homes to go to.

Above and below are some of these works before they were framed. The wood was donated in log form by one of our regular attendants to our Monday morning drawing group. So thank you Graham, he has now donated two more bits of log wood for future works. I would have started on these by now but have been thoroughly involved in my recent book works.

Below are four of these now framed to give you an idea of how they look.

Well I am off to get on with my art as I do nearly every day of the year. Cheers!

New drawing, new concept and gubbins.

Tuesday:

So above is a drawing that I did the day before and realised that it needed dots so last night I finished it off and I am now quite pleased with it.

Above is another drawing I did last night on a small piece of driftwood and I now need to find another nine of these, it is part of something a little more conceptual that I have in mind. I was influenced quite a while ago by an exhibition we had a few years ago and the wash of some contemporary art. So the concept so far although it could change is to make ten of these and they will be available to be sent to a future exhibition, although I know not where at this moment but as drawing/sculpture, a kind of installation to dropped randomly from a certain height to see how the fall and lie. More about this later especially as I find similar pieces on the beach. Also in my head I have kind of reference to Jim Lambie and his floors and stick (although that was all done with electrical tape) from the era of the Painting Not Painting exhibition at Tate St Ives, probably ten years or more ago. I loved that show and it was a few years before we moved to St Ives but that show has always stayed with me for its wealth of interesting lest mainstream but ideas.

Recently my mind has been in deep thought over how to extend my drawing and ideas into something a bit more conceptual. It seems a fun mind game to play and to keep searching for new perspectives of drawing and what I do and am trying to do next.

Anyway with all that conceptual stuff mention, here above is a fairly straight forward drawing I did  earlier just playing with ideas and pattern, it is what I do mainly.

Today has been another quietish day the weather was too bad again for me to run a tour although I did go up to the The Workshop if anyone felt hardy enough to be prepared to be taken around town but hey maybe next week. I also got paid for a sale a while ago, which was nice. Thank you.

Tomorrow I have an abstract drawing workshop to do at Barnoon and I have some people who couldn't come to last weeks who are coming to it, I was happy to rearrange it for them and it should be fun too.

Also today my Mother-in-Law, Suzanna has come down from Oxford to stay for a few days so we met her at the train station just after 3:30pm and had a restorative tea/coffee at the Pedn Olva Hotel before returning home for banter and food and below is the view we had out of the window.

It was a bit misty and a bit wet but still lovely so I share it with you.

I have still quite a lot to do tonight so I wrap this blog up with a bendy drawing I did a while ago and I am about to got off and draw and socialise before bed. Cheers all I will be back tomorrow as always and update you on what I have created, good or bad and other events in this artists day.

Start The Week and New Drawings.

Above is a drawing I finished last night, one of the missing ones from my latest whole sketchbook work.

Above is another drawing as most of these in today's blog, small additions made to finish off to my satisfaction in that whole sketchbook, might be complete soon, hope so as some of it may be photographed on Saturday.

Above is another completely new ones and below are the other ones with additions added in last night's session.

Today was a good learning day for me, I attended my wife's classes at Barnoon Workshop and above is the water colour I managed to do this afternoon and below is one of the drawings I did in The Drop in And Draw session. I am pleased with both and I am slowly entering a less abstract world for once, well from time to time.

At the end of the drawing session this morning Graham from the group had saved me a log from a vareigated holly so I nipped round to his house to pick it up. Thank you Graham I am sure it will come in handy for some future drawings. I didn't have time today to do some sawing and I hope I get time tomorrow. The grain is very close and the log quite heavy for it's size. I am sure I will share the results when I start work on them...

Off to draw now....

Dot Theory.

Above is another new drawing that I completed in last evenings drawing session, It is not large but it does have a presence.

Above is a drawing I did a couple of summers ago for and exhibition, I like the challenge of draing on different surfaces.

Above and below are painted dots on a canvas bag, I like to keep my pens in them.

Above and below are several drawings that I have done on some bark that was donated by our friend Tree Stewart. I like to get donations and challenges to draw on I wander what I will get given this coming year.

The title of this blog is 'Dot Theory' which goes someway to encapsulating what i do in my 'contemporary abstract drawing'. Today I have included some dictionary definitions of dot/dots.

noun

noun: dot; plural noun: dots

1. 1.

   a small round mark or spot.

   "a symbol depicted in coloured dots"

   synonyms:

   spot, speck, fleck, speckle, point, pinpoint, pinprick, mark, dab; More bit, particle, atom, molecule, iota, jot, mote, mite; full stop, decimal point; raremacule, macula "the photograph is made up of tiny dots"

   • a small round mark written or printed as part of an i or j, as one of a series of marks to signify omission, or as a full stop.

     synonyms:

     spot, speck, fleck, speckle, point, pinpoint, pinprick, mark, dab; More bit, particle, atom, molecule, iota, jot, mote, mite; full stop, decimal point; raremacule, macula "the photograph is made up of tiny dots"

   • Music

     a small round mark used to denote the lengthening of a note or rest by half, or to indicate staccato.
   • the shorter signal of the two used in Morse code.
   • used to refer to an object that appears tiny because it is far away.

     "they were mere dots on the horizon now"
   • used to indicate the punctuation separating parts of an email or website address.

     "OUP dot com"

verb

verb: dot; 3rd person present: dots; past tense: dotted; past participle: dotted; gerund or present participle: dotting

1. 1.

   mark with a small spot or spots.

   "wet spots of rain began to dot his shirt"

   synonyms:

   spot, fleck, bespeckle, mark, dab, stipple, pock, freckle, sprinkle, dust; More literarybefleck, bestrew, besprinkle "spots of rain began to dot his shirt"

   • (of a number of items) be scattered over (an area).

     "churches dot the countryside"

     synonyms:

     scatter, pepper, sprinkle, strew, litter; More punctuate, stud, cover; spread, disperse, intersperse, distribute "North Africa was once dotted with freshwater lakes"

   • place a dot over (a letter).

     "you need to dot the i"
   • Music

     mark (a note or rest) to show that the time value is increased by half.

     "a dotted minim
2. I am off to draw and relax, cheers all until tomorrow.

Whole Sketchbook Work and other things.

Above are three drawings that I finished off in last evenings drawing session, a colourful bunch mainly using sharpies, uni-pin and a white gel pen.

I still haven't been able to find out if mine and my wife's entries for the Christmas Open as I couldn't open a document that was sent detailing names that had made it in. So I will have to wait until tomorrow to find out. There is a Private View between 3pm and 5pm tomorrow.

Below I have included a few older works on wood, sea pottery and paper. The wood drawings were amongst the earliest wood drawings I did. The slate and sea pottery and the marbled paper one were all done in the last year or so.

I am starting to think about other large scale drawings however I have one to finish off before starting on other biggies but lots of ideas floating around in my head I am sure that by the time I start a new one I will be very sure of what I will do, or a least have the process sorted.

I am off to draw, cheers!

Wood Drawing, Remix project, Wilhelimina Barns-Graham and a blur.

Above is a dreadful pic of the drawing I did last night, will get a better shot tomorrow but I thought I would give you the idea. I have been riffing on the previous drawing I did the previous session.

Today after doing some work at the workshop we went off to do a dump run and the we went onto The Penlee Gallery in Penzance to see the current Wilhelmina Barns-Graham exhibition. It is a really fascinating show with lots of her earlier works which range from offset prints to paintings an drawings. Finally the show broadened out with her later abstract works, which personally really connect with me. The freedom and the joy of colour. She was an inspiration working up to her death in 2004, an artist should never stop working.

We also had a quick gander at the permanent collection to. Stanhope Forbes amongst others. Some fantastic works by other members of the Newlyn School. Also the have a display of historical antiquities from ceramics from 2,500 BC to flint arrow heads to bronze age artifacts and also a more 20th Century view point covering mainly Penwith.

I have been thinking in depth about my work over the last while and on my quest to thoroughly explore my view on contemporary abstract drawing. So sometimes whilst thinking I have been looking back through some pics of my previous works in different mediums whilst still 'drawing' or what I call drawing. You might also call it printing with a pen, that is for you to decide.

Below are 3 of my drawings on wood or thick paper as I sometimes think of it.

I am really enjoying seeing these three again.

In contrast to all that wood drawing here is a remix project I did last year. At the end of the work I returned it to the Tate St Ives perspex brouchure recylcing box. I believe they still have it somewhere.

Well I am off to draw.