Going Digital #3

Continuing the experiment of drawing with the new digital pen, & returning to Cézanne as the source from which to trace an image for the purposes of mark-making, on this occasion one of the artist’s landscape studies, in his recognizable technique of exploratory lines & tonal ‘hatching’.
Again, as (noted) with the two previous examples, degrees of loss (of detail & subtlety) & difference are clearly discernible between the reproduction of the original Cézanne pencil drawing, the biro tracing & the digital reading/processing of the tracing, each media displaying their own distinct(ive) qualities.


Cézanne 'Landscape with Trees' c.1885-87
pencil on paper/12x21cm


tracing after Cézanne 'Landscape with Trees'
biro on tracing paper/30x20cm


digital reading of tracing after Cézanne 'Landscape with Trees'

As has become the usual final stage of the process, we also present the digital image as converted to text, again the drawn marks intriguingly translated into a sequence of what has become the norm of uppercase Es, hash & Yen symbols with a scattering of asterisks thrown in & also, rather bizarrely, the words ‘feed’ &, rather bizarrely, ‘tonsillitis!’ (sic) – that exclamation mark is not necessarily a surprise under such circumstances…

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- #EEaeayµµkie±E÷I¥£¥s±±¥¥fkedtfett do I f=a*m*j--714 I=I tonsillitis!ttttttttttf EEEEEEEEEEEIEEEIE.IEF±ttttte
-* rMMMn=I_Mmm+->. t*H
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