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    ArtistOz
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        I’ve been busy I was a judge at a recent art competition and they want me back next year, seems there were no tears shed. I was part of a group exhibition (landscapes and animals) and I have 3 more group exhibitions coming up this year. I also mentor a growing group of new artists and as people see my work or find out about me they keep asking for help. I did a closed video podcast on drawing back in March and now people are demanding another video podcast on sketching people from life. A regional newspaper is asking for articles on art from me. All of this surprises me as my eyesight and hand control are not as good as they once were.

        Here are some of my sketchbook drawings wobbly hands and eyes included, to show I am doing things to keep the motor idling.

        I combined two ink drawings in Procreate, one I did of the park in town sitting in my car and some folks sitting around to make a better image, the sum being being better than the parts.

        1) A4 and A5 combined.

        2) A4

        3) A4

        I did some fleeting sketches with a marker pen at the local show grounds of people as they roamed, stood, shuffled or sat around, no 3 minute poses in this situation. :(

        4) A5

        5) A5

        Bill,
        https://www.flickr.com/photos/artistoz/
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        #631173

        You are leading a busy artistic life by the sound of things Bill, and your ‘wobbly’ hands are creating some captivating drawings that are like little story books :thumbsup:

        Mac

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        sorry about your eyes and wobbles Bill, but you still get great shapes

        Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art - Leonardo da Vinci
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        ArtistOz
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            Thanks Mac I have been approached a couple of times by authors to illustrate their books but I haven’t signed any contracts yet :)

            David thanks my eyes don’t focus as fast when changing my view from sketchbook to subject specially when distant. In future I am going to have to rely on memory when I do remember.

            Forgive my preaching, I use a blunt instrument in ink markers .05 or larger as I want to be committed to the line. There are two ways to find shape with line: use line to follow the shape or use line to search for the shape. Traditional drawing depends on searching for the shape remember pentimenti? Outside of the traditional life class in the street you only have seconds to capture the scene before it changes unless you take a photo which takes you in a different direction from the life experience.

            When you follow the shape with line you can’t correct it, I love that limitation. And thick ink lines commit you to the mark I love that challenge too. I’m moving away from my past of accurately capturing the appearances of things. When I finished the portrait of Kate which took me 40 hours I realised I didn’t want to work like that anymore instead I wanted to work alla prima specially in drawing. I want to be more expressive than I have been.

            In Art there is a spectrum between Rational and Emotional and we all are somewhere on that spectrum and sometimes at each end not locked in. The more realist you are the more rational you need to be and the more expressive the more emotional. I now start to understand Picasso’s comment that it took him a lifetime to paint like a child.

            Bill,
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            Constance
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                Enjoyed your sketches Bill. Sketching people from life…that’s something that I’m interested in…wonder if outsiders (or non-artists like me) be allowed to listen/view?

                Instagram: unsuspectingstrangers

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                ArtistOz
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                    Thanks Constance, It will be a while before anything happens I will talk to the organiser because its a private art group. I didn’t know she was going to make a podcast and some things didn’t translate visually like the slides on the wall were not captured well by the iphone camera. For the next one I’ll have to work out the visual presentation as well as work out how to teach this in an understandable structure for people who have very little experience.

                    Bill,
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                    #631180
                    123harry
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                        Your deceptively simple line tells us a lot about these people. You have captured moments of interaction. The first with its bench of expressive backs makes highly individual composition. Great stuff!

                        C&C always welcome.
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                        #631178

                        Thanks so much for sharing your drawings and your thoughts, Bill! Some insight and wisdom from you.

                        bethany
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                        My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality. ~Daniel R. Lynch

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                        “In future I am going to have to rely on memory when I do remember.”

                        Keep that for your book of quotes :)

                        Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art - Leonardo da Vinci
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                        ArtistOz
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                            Thanks Harry your comment warms my heart.

                            Thank you Bethany its nice to be appreciated.

                            David, I find my short term memory is getting shorter I have to keep looking just to see one thing. They say visual memory is perfect memory however I forget to put film in it, that’s an analogy we would know but the digital age would be confused by.

                            Bill,
                            https://www.flickr.com/photos/artistoz/
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                            #631179

                            I really like the composition of the first Bill but they are all good.

                            Nathan.
                            C&C always appreciated.
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                            IndianaKate
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                                You are one popular guy, Bill! I agree with Harry, your deceptively simple lines are elegantly expressive.

                                Kate

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                                ArtistOz
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                                    Thanks Nathan, they don’t have to be good that’s the beauty of sketchbook drawings.

                                    Thanks Kate I’ll take elegantly deceptive as a compliment, I like it but don’t feel its true. :)

                                    Bill,
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