This blog's title is based upon the best question I ever overheard being asked, by a young Liverpudlian child to his mother, as in "What's..?". The answer seems to be something of a creative and cultural nature which, in deed (primarily the making of art) and word, this blog intends to explore...
Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Light & Dark & Vice Versa
graphite, putty eraser & watercolour/30x20cm
Another little divergence from 'The Project' in the form of an 'accidental' still-life arrangement.
The kitsch white porcelain cat is not something I would necessarily have considered for drawing but, when appraised in the company of the dark bowl which had been randomly placed beside it (put there filled with water having added the finishing touches of colour to the 8th Euro football crowd drawing) & also noticing, in the particular late afternoon light, how one edge of its high glaze picked up the reflection of the red wood-stained door outside, it & the whole became a worthy object of contemplation-for-transcription, also with the bowl losing its edge where it reflected the white paper to its other side. Notable also just how white white sometimes isn't, in a contre-jour circumstance such as the one described.
Soundtrack:
The Fall '50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong' (disc 1)
Low 'The Great Destroyer'
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