Maybe this is preparing me to go through a Georgia O'Keefe phase. These are the beautifully unique to me gifts that I was given by Penny Sisto, artist-sistah-friend that she is. For this city girl, these are like WOW!
Penny lives in a rural area and picks these up on her walks and people bring them to her as well so she has a growing collection. Okay, if I was going to pick up items where I live I guess it would be soda and beer cans because that is what people do who live in cities, right? So not as interesting to me as these beautifully shapped old decaying cow and deer bones.
Adrian, my oldest grandson, said "cool" when he first saw them and Carter, my youngest grandson, said "ewwww, thats nasty" A studio neighbor asked me what I planned to do with them...honestly, do I have to have a plan? I don't think so, but I'm thinking about drawing them for awhile...I think Penny said she used a small bone in one of her recent pieces now showing at the Carnegie Center for Art and History in New Albany, Ind in a solo exhibit...Carnegie is the place that hosts annually Form Not Function.
I did make it into the studio yesterday and although I was productive it wasn't with intent...i finished the discharge. It was killing me to stamp so orderly so I loosened up...but looking at the outcome, I wish I had forced myself to continue on with the more controlled pattern...ummm, process (right hand) vs outcome (left hand)...which will have priority next time????
That orangish glow is from a back light bouncing off a painting by Aimee, studio mate.
and this is me attempting to sketch directly on fabric...off and on for about a year or so I've been sketching faces...the seed hasn't developed wildly enough yet that any but I'm getting there...
this is the start...sketching from the photo in the collage below.
I would've taken the bones if they were offered to me too but....what the heck are you going to do with the skull(?), which is way cool btw.
ReplyDeleteit is a deer pelvis...and I had no clue what I was going to do with them when I took them, but I'm now thinking the lines are so graceful that I'm thinking I'll use them for sketching.
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