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Aug. 21st, 2010 23:49I spend most of a decade doing almost nothing in terms of classical art, and suddenly bam.
Sure, I've been doing some layout and logo work, nothing intensive, just the occasional Powerpoint or brochure. I'm doing a little now, with a couple of flyers we're printing up. I'm also using my eye for proportion and space to put images in the right places. However...
Not only have I been painting an RV, I've been modifying the logo and printing it (not so unusual), creating stencils (unusual), and painting the logos on the rig by hand, with brushes. I don't think I've done detail brush work since '93.
Moreover, I drew a figure for my bike repair sign, transferred it to two slabs of white plywood, and I'll be painting *those*. I know I haven't done real paintings since high school: I did the required single latex piece and watercolor for Art class, decided I hated brushes, and spent the rest of that year and the next happily ensconced in colored pencil technique. It's also odd that the figure I drew was a self-portrait -- I suck at human figures. Sure, it's more or less Phil Foglio style, no realistic hands or facial lines, but it stuns me that my talent surfaced while I was sketching enough that I got everything in proportion, or nearly so. I know the formulas, but I've never been able to do that without wire frames... this just kind of came out. Maybe my hand was already developed enough, and the years have let me get an eye for humans... or maybe I was just lucky that day. Who knows.
So suddenly I'm handling brushes more than any time in my life, using methods learned half a lifetime ago for transferring images from sketches to full-size canvas, and lecturing Greg on the temperament of paint. What a strange summer this has turned out to be.
Sure, I've been doing some layout and logo work, nothing intensive, just the occasional Powerpoint or brochure. I'm doing a little now, with a couple of flyers we're printing up. I'm also using my eye for proportion and space to put images in the right places. However...
Not only have I been painting an RV, I've been modifying the logo and printing it (not so unusual), creating stencils (unusual), and painting the logos on the rig by hand, with brushes. I don't think I've done detail brush work since '93.
Moreover, I drew a figure for my bike repair sign, transferred it to two slabs of white plywood, and I'll be painting *those*. I know I haven't done real paintings since high school: I did the required single latex piece and watercolor for Art class, decided I hated brushes, and spent the rest of that year and the next happily ensconced in colored pencil technique. It's also odd that the figure I drew was a self-portrait -- I suck at human figures. Sure, it's more or less Phil Foglio style, no realistic hands or facial lines, but it stuns me that my talent surfaced while I was sketching enough that I got everything in proportion, or nearly so. I know the formulas, but I've never been able to do that without wire frames... this just kind of came out. Maybe my hand was already developed enough, and the years have let me get an eye for humans... or maybe I was just lucky that day. Who knows.
So suddenly I'm handling brushes more than any time in my life, using methods learned half a lifetime ago for transferring images from sketches to full-size canvas, and lecturing Greg on the temperament of paint. What a strange summer this has turned out to be.
