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No new fanart yet, I started the task of digitizing my sketches and other artwork though. It can be only a matter of days until I lose interest, it's not the most interesting pasttime. But, I already have a nice collection of stuff I drew over the years. Most of these were done in the early 90s. I didn't seem to get to sketch a whole lot after that.
Anyhoo: buncha sketches.
Boston, the Back Bay Fens. I'd totally forgotten about these, I was meaning to colour them.
I did quite a few when I was greyhounding through America (you're doing a _lot_ of waiting when you're going Greyhound.)
I'm calling this one "In the Middle of Nowhere, Idaho." This was at a rest stop.
a few hours later, around midnight in the middle of nowhere. We were waiting for the connecting bus, which was over an hour late. This guy wanted me to draw him to pass the time.
one of the Greyhound drivers. We were chatting for hours on end. He had this sign that said "Don't talk to the driver."
Asable chasm near Burlington, Vermont, on the other side of Lake Champlain.
also in Burlington
Some small Vermont town on the Green Mountain Train line
Museum of British Columbia in Victoria. Really cool museum, beautiful dioramas
London, British Museum.
and one of my favourite places, Kew Gardens
St. Martin's-in-the-Field, the café in the cript.
some place in Munich... German Museum?
this is somewhere in eastern Germany, right after the reunification.
And a few glimpses of my hometown. :)
This is... I don't actually know. But it looks cool. Taken at the canal lock.
our "harbour" (it's tiny. This is pretty much it.)
turning 180°, one of the old warehouses, now refurbished & hip.
in the Schlossgarten (castle gardens)
some nondescript place, the building was torn down the next day.
Cathedral (with chickens)
and finally, at the zoo...
baby python
Aand, that's a wrap.
Anyhoo: buncha sketches.
Boston, the Back Bay Fens. I'd totally forgotten about these, I was meaning to colour them.
I did quite a few when I was greyhounding through America (you're doing a _lot_ of waiting when you're going Greyhound.)
I'm calling this one "In the Middle of Nowhere, Idaho." This was at a rest stop.
a few hours later, around midnight in the middle of nowhere. We were waiting for the connecting bus, which was over an hour late. This guy wanted me to draw him to pass the time.
one of the Greyhound drivers. We were chatting for hours on end. He had this sign that said "
Asable chasm near Burlington, Vermont, on the other side of Lake Champlain.
also in Burlington
Some small Vermont town on the Green Mountain Train line
Museum of British Columbia in Victoria. Really cool museum, beautiful dioramas
London, British Museum.
and one of my favourite places, Kew Gardens
St. Martin's-in-the-Field, the café in the cript.
some place in Munich... German Museum?
this is somewhere in eastern Germany, right after the reunification.
And a few glimpses of my hometown. :)
This is... I don't actually know. But it looks cool. Taken at the canal lock.
our "harbour" (it's tiny. This is pretty much it.)
turning 180°, one of the old warehouses, now refurbished & hip.
in the Schlossgarten (castle gardens)
some nondescript place, the building was torn down the next day.
Cathedral (with chickens)
and finally, at the zoo...
baby python
Aand, that's a wrap.
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Artists. You have to love them.
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I find the paintings fascinating. I'm not a painter myself though... as an illustrator I basically tell stories through pictures. Not saying one is better than the other, mind, but I don't consider myself any kind of judge when it comes to this kind of art. (In Germany we call it "freie Kunst", free art - don't know what it's called in English.)
It's weird, come to think of it - I never had the desire to express emotions through art. I don't have this drive but you can feel it here. It's not surprising she won awards with her work. They are very expressive, very raw some of them, and disturbing. Like you said, not surprising when you hear the background.
The excavation series in particular: fascinating, not easy to look at, but hard to look away. There're these objects that keep appearing, I wonder what they are?
The one I like best is the series 'drawings and small works.' I can't even say why but they got something. They look so three-dimensional. I find them quite aesthetically pleasing, though I don't know if they're supposed to be ;) (btw, I think there's a mixup in there, the last and third-to-last picture look the same)
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I wish I had some of her very early works to show you. Like you, she is a very strong draftsman and actually won the drafting award in HS (The HS of Music and Art. You had to be tested to get in so a lot of talented people.)
I tease her that if suddenly her life became perfect she'd likely stop painting and she agrees. For her art is catharsis.
Thanks for taking the time to look and comment. I agree that illustrative art is different than so called fine art, but I think both are equally valid. I wouldn't want to have to choose between Maurice Sendak and Mark Rothko.
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Seriously beautiful.
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They're building a new lock at the canal. I saw the construction site this summer, it looked pretty awesome; should at least have taken a few pictures.
The tiger is still one of my favourites. It was a quick drawing, like two minutes. Then a couple years later I was copying all kinds of sketches on wrapping paper and coloured them with guache... get some cool effects that way. Unfortunately the brown paper isn't UV resistant, so you can't hang them on the wall. But I had a lot of fun experimenting with it.
I also have a ton of calligraphy works on that paper. Airbrush colour on that background looks very neat. They encouraged us to try everything in calligraphy class. Like, instead of pen and nib, write with toothbrush and toothpaste. :)
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That is beautiful work, and beautiful self-abnegation. Argh.
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Heh. It's said that if you can't draw with a burnt match stub you're no artist at all, but I think that wicked saw worked out very well in your case. :)
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Except... WOW.
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These are just gorgeous. Really. Especially the buildings.
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But the rest -- whoa. Thanks for sharing. So very cool.
Would you like an icon made of any of these??
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these are amazing
Also, i didn't know you'd been to Victoria!
I like the bus driver.
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I've been to Victoria two or three times. Do you live there? I love it. I even briefly wondered whether I should consider moving there ('t was a number of years ago though, when I was young and spontaneous). The people are so friendly, and there's so much to do outdoors. Dunno about the whether in the winter... though I was told that it's not as bad as Vancouver.
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whetherweather!