Here's some of my latest ventures into the visual world. (ok, one is old and rediscovered lurking somewhere on my computer. I really need to spend some time organizing it all so nothing gets lost or hidden).
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 | Messy Ink 1. Abstracted enough it's sensual. I saw kissing. I saw "female". |
 | I kind of like to do that kind of ink, sort of Rorshach-ish at times. What I see is not what you see in reality... |
| I used to lay heavy cotton linter paper all over my studio floor and walk around with a Japanese ink brush, five bamboo stems tied together holding the soft long hair, and I'd let dyes and inks and paints fall at random. Then I'd go home. I slept while art made itself and when I returned to my studio, I responded to whatever waited for me. |
| Sounds like something I would do if I had the space that I could leave unattended overnight. I need some place like that, I think. I could do so much more than my usual places, but at the same time I like having things portable and moveable easily just in case. hmmm... |
 | Oh my God, Ben.
Rose asked if my drawings are like yours? Definitely not. Theses so good ! |
| Hey, I thought of you when I was reading Art In America yesterday. See if you might find art by Jill Moser, particularly, a painting called "Tryst". It's oils, but reminded me of messy ink. |
| Cyndi,
Except for the inked ones, these aren't my usual doodles.
I had this urge to draw some people and my wife doesn't like it when I try to draw her. It makes her nervous. :) |
| Wren,
I checked out some of her work. Very cool. I like it. I've always wanted to go for oils or acrylics and even though I've dabbled in them, I can't do it right now unless I want little handprints all over it. Sometimes I think we need one more bedroom where we live, to make it a creative space. :) |
| I am fortunate to have a large studio, but it is not equipped for sculpture unless smaller in scale. I have made a book of sorts of vellum, graphite and white silk thread that hangs stitched together by threads. It's a suspended book, personal, and it's pages are small. like the palm of my hand and they read in no particular order in the form of a small quilt. I am entering it in the spring regional exhibition. It documents a convoluted period of time. |
| I would settle for a 5 foot cube box I could go to hide in and stay and keep things in that are in the works. Any space at all sounds good. :)
That book sounds an interesting idea.
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| In undergraduate school I had access to a complete woodshop with sandblaster, bandsaws, belt sanders and presses. I went through the classical training casting bronze and carving, but was in the end, an additive artist, in all genres. My studio then was a box as you described, maybe 7 x 7 with no roof in a large A-Frame building with a balcony. My professor watched from above. I saw him a few times. I knew he was there. |
| Wow! That sounds like a cool place to work, to have everything there to use. I'm not much into power tools but I've seen some amazing things done with sandblasters on glass(my wife's aunt- really good stuff she makes). I think if I had a place about the size of those old forts from childhood, I'd be alright. I draw laying down a lot, on my stomach, when at home and comfortable. |
| LOL. I'm a power tool mama. I was anyway. Now I even buy prestretched canvases because I'm lazy. fyi-you're better shaggy |
| Oh, thanks. It's more naturally me, I guess. :) |
 | Ohwow Ben. Really awesome work. What the heck? Marvelous. |
| He said he needed a break. I can not remember the title of the blog where he says this, but it was within the last few days.
Oh I cant remember because there was no title.
The title is "..."
LOL |
| I'll take two biggie sized brain waves and an extra tall Ben please. |
| Ben won't get any taller than he is. He's stopped growing...
but your biggie size brain waves... the total comes to $3.56. Please pull up to the first window. |
| gnaw gnaw crunch crunch yummmy
I'd like a family pack. |
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