Gina's eye - Visual Artist

life drawing week 2

the exercise this week was to look through a viewfinder the size of a slide ... this i did - not quite at arms length but halfway from my eye and arms length ... if you test this you can see that you can get quite a lot (or a little) of the model in the viewfinder depending on the length away from your eye ..

its tiring - looking with one eye closed through the viewfinder and keeping the correct angle, site you are looking at etc ...

an interesting exercise ....

some of these were drawn onto pre prepared papers .... gesso over maps and vintage wallpaper

my favourite ...the negative /positive aspect (below)

market finds

they look like stools that might have been used in schools ... you know, a science class or something like that ? i love them ... i am going to mosaic them (first one below) ... i broke up some found plates to mosaic this one

they are encouraged to be used as stools or pot plant stands ... matching pot with the first one below ... grouting coming up ...

we are working hard around the place to try and get my gallery and studio up but i am resigned to it not being workable until winter 2012 .... still, i play, and collect, and sort, and play ...

he found me

on the beach ... i am yet to know if he is experienced, well lived and wise or just sinister ...

exploring

getting to know this place we moved to ..

life drawing

one of my most favourite activites for honing hand eye coordination and refreshing what is seen in the landscape. Sessions of drawing from the nude gives me a fresh perspective when looking in the landscape ... curves, line, shadow, depth, perspective, mood ... ok so the mood part is my own mood, what is happening in my life, whether i am happy/sad, angry etc

i believe that we impose upon our viewing our beliefs, history, nature and current emotional state and this is expressed in the art, photography, writing we do - to dance, film and any creative expression i think.

anyway, coming up to the third week ... here is from the first -

hot summer days

beach combing and market finds
extending the paper clay explorations to plaster of paris

discovering paper clay

still playing ... will be in this mode for a few weeks and push materials, techniques and ideas.

the mix is a little dry ... so these are fragile ... love the shadows.

playing

i am at odds with myself ... no studio ... no time ... no REAL space to do ....
but ... things are in hand ... we moved house months ago to a new place (on the port) ... i am now moving to part time work (in my same job) so a few weeks of training a new person in my job and doing the job share thing.

we brought in a couple of sea freight containers and have started to pack into them clearing out of the garage which will then be refurbished into gallery /studio space ... meantime, i play ....

in between stolen moments i mosaic, stitch a little, collect collect collect raw materials, pictures, ideas, material and explore techniques to use sometime ...

and sometime there are spectacular failures ... this one i am yet to decide

new year in a waxing moon ... half full

hopes and dreams
may 2012 BE all you wish for

it started with a bang for us - this is the view from our place
the works were launched across the river

new year launch

our small town celebrated with the launch of 1,000 lanterns made of paper and wood with the words of the community written across them. children and mums and dads gathered from mid afternoon and wrote their hopes and dreams on the lanterns and volunteers launched them into the night ...