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Selected Drawings 2 2000 to 2003 |
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Selected Drawings 2 2000 to 2003 |
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From My Sketch
Book May 2000 Pencil 8.5 by 11in Study for: Series titled "Footprints on the Shadows of Time". The general idea came from: "The Language of the Goddess" by Marija Gimbutas, foreward by Joseph Campbell. The bottom row of (20) twenty thousand year old
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woman, 2) woman and man,
3) woman pregnant, 4) woman gives birth, 5)woman with child ), are from: "The Book of Signs", by Rudolf Koch, Dover publications |
K O'Connor(1939-2039) |
From My
Sketch Book
July 2000 : Coloured Pencil 7in x 6.5in from: imagination: Merging of Speed & Kandinsky I had been studying linear principles presented by Harold Speed in his book: The Practice & Science of Drawing (1916) when I recalled ideas presented by Kandinsky in his book Point & Line to Plane (1927) I found it interesting that one man was relating these linear principles to representational art and the second was developing an art that just concerned it'self with the principles.
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My Sketch Book July 2000 : Coloured Pencil 7.5in x 10.5in from: imagination: Green Moon I wanted to work with simple shapes resulting from a free spontaneous subdividing of the visual space. The image slowly evolved much like an interesting
dream. It has elements of a mother and child attempting to bridge the seperating
gap of birth.
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"Home
Port at Low Tide " Nova Scotia Canada 2003 13in by 16in -pencil on paper The fourth sketch in a series that
will eventually result in an oil painting. (see
other sketches below)
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| I found that many of their suggestions could be easly incorporated by making minor changes to sketch no. three. See if you can identify the changes. |
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"Home
Port at Low Tide " Nova Scotia Canada 2003 13in by 16in -pencil on paper The third sketch in a series that
will eventually result in an oil painting. After reluctantly giving
up smelly oil painting years ago I have recently discovered water
based oil paints. Now this is going to be fun at last.
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| My objective: reduce the elements to strong slightly distorted geometric forms and overlay graphic symbols that replace much of the natural detail in order to emotionalize the overall composition. | Angular twisting of the huts and wharf in conjunction with the environmental starkness join in forming a poetic expression of the life force struggle as faced by fisherman the world over. |
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Watts
Creek 1 Eastern Ontario Canada Aug. 2003 7in x 9in pencil on paper Most every day during the summer I ride my mountain bike (bicycle) along the Watts Creek Trails. Numerous times over a six week period I stopped to look and absorb the ambience of this scene. Although I carry a sketch pad with me I make very few sketches for fear that dependence upon sketches will destroy my mental impressions. |
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| My objective is to express my feelings for the life forms. This could not be accomplished by foccusing on their visual appearance. | To this end I removed the millions of small shapes that inundated my eyes thus simplfying the trees into simple life form expressons. The world we look out at merges with the world inside ourselves to become a unified life expression. |
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