MATERIAL
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Prompt two was to establish a daily making practice relevant to my practice but something that would include working with relatively new materials.
My drawing pads came to my mind straight away. I haven’t been utilizing them at all. I do enjoy drawing and painting, so previously I thought I could easily get used to digital drawing,. However, any attempt to become proficient with drawing pads ended up in frustration. Therefore, they stayed buried in my drawers.
It was nerve-wracking for me to set a goal of learning how to draw digitally in two weeks and to create something decent in the process! But without this pressure, I feel I would have continued to avoid it.
So…, I decided to give it a try.
First Week
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With my faculty, Cameron’s, suggestion, I decided to try a drawing application called “Procreate”. It seemed easy enough to start; in fact, it was much easier to use than Adobe Illustrator! While I was testing out different brushes, I was also learned to use to the left sliders to vary the size and opacity of brushes.
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Second Week
Getting rid of the mediation
During my one-on-one with Cameron at the end of week one, he suggested to “get rid of the mediation”. “How about drawing more like gesture drawing”? he said.
I think he wanted me to focus on the gesture more than the details of the objects that I was drawing. It made sense! I went home and contemplated objectively what my next actions should be. I needed to get rid of the mediation processes, but I always tend to focus on details. To counter my natural process and step into Carmon’s suggestion, I thought that I should practice blind drawing of movements. I had never tried blind gesture drawing prior to this, but I believe this could work for me to get rid of the mediation physically and mentally.
Following this plan, I was able to focus on what is in the present moment.
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My first attempt was capturing our two dogs in our backyard. I sat on the patio and watched and captured them in their movements without looking at my iPad. I found it interesting that their eyes and noses stood out afterwards.
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The colours were chosen from the colour theme made from the photo taken on the location.
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Blind Drawing Walk
Up to this time, I stayed in one place while I drew. Then I wondered what it would be like to blind draw while I was moving. I decided to try this as I walked.
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The first drawing while walking was on a sidewalk in my neighbourhood lined with trees and vegetation. Notice the crow at the top.
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Walk Two is from a similar viewpoint while returning home. I changed the colours because outside was darker.
Time Lapse of Walk Two
This prompt started with a few lines and ended with lots of lines. Something spoke to me when I walked while I drew. My discovery was that I realized that present time stands upon layers of times. Time is something that we all experience without boundaries. I thought of how we all are at the top layer of time at every moment. The present becomes the past – I was feeling this in real time through layering the scenes I saw as I walked by. It is hard to explain, but it was an interesting moment to ponder while my hands moved. I also discovered that people come and go but the land, trees and non-human animals stay living the same way. It was a new and interesting experiment to observe my environment this way.
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