Colour
Ernst Haeckel - inspiration of form and colour. Beautiful and yet loaded.
How can drawing convey more than the subject? How can tiny apertures release greatness?
Out of small comes abundance (TD Jakes)
I’m keen to use natural materials and not interfere - yet I do find key colours come that I am drawn to. Collect and muse upon.
In the past few days colour has come into my frame. I’m noticing a particular pallet - I’m missing drawing and I wonder if this could play a part of it.
Not sure how much I want to say about this…I could leave it. Just post the image and the title.
Maybe its a piece to show.
But for the sake of my blog, process and the need to document I’ll write.
Disposed of ‘used thinner’ from multiple oil painters, collected and distilled over a period of time. Left to stand, gradually the paint settles as sediment and the thinner can be poured off and reused. Divisable. The sediment normally disposed of. However I realised as I recycled the thinner that there was a uniform colour created each time. The colour of everything left behind.
I collected the sediment in a specimen jar - it seemed appropriate somehow. Something evidential. Something clinical. Dispassionate. Removed.
I wonder if I should use it, make a drawing or print, but for now it doesn’t feel right. I just want to keep the jar. Distilled.
Everything is divisible. (Almost)
Addendum: I’ve come back and posted the image 3 times as I attempted to colour correct the image to get it as faithful as possible, but I’m working with an I-phone 11 and an old Sony 3/4 SLR and a laptop, which doesn’t bode well fo colour correction. George if you read this I know how off things are, please don’t judge me!
Encombre #2 broken landscapes. With an odd, but makes sense to me reference to the movie the Joker, (previously touched upon in a blog on the 13th of October)
It’s the colours the stark muted tones dropping to black, but punctuated by a stark vibrant and synthetic yellow. In the movie it jars along with the narrative.
In the street images the yellow road markings sit incongruous, whilst a greater drama ensues. One of transformation in what has become a liminal place, or perhaps a liminal moment>>>
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Image stil - taken from movie: Joker
Directed and produced by Todd Phillips 2019
Joker was produced by Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Films in association with Village Roadshow Pictures, Bron Creative and Joint Effort.
All other images my own.
