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My plan for how this discovery will emerge in my work will be through a variety of media explorations. My comfort zone is in realistic-ish drawing, so I would like to start out exploring the structures in these photographs in my sketchbook, and once I feel comfortable, I will then attempt to combine the shapes and possibly abstract them a bit. I would also like to use this time to learn screen printing and I will try to create a screen print using "in the hand" as my guideline. I am not yet sure if the screen print will be my culminating piece or if I will make a few runs and add paint/drawing on top of them.
I think it's especially dynamic to see several of the hand and object combinations together like this because the hand enters the picture plane from different sides and it implies a lot of motion.
ReplyDeleteHave you never done screenprinting before? What resources do you have for learning it? Though I think it's good to challenge yourself and learn new things, I would encourage you to not let it get in the way of pursuing these images as far as they lead you. Perhaps if you think of your first screenprinting attempts as foundations for more painting and drawing rather than a culminating piece it will take the pressure off of the learning and allow you to enjoy the process more.
Hi Emily,
ReplyDeleteI guess I just don't see these photos as actual works. They are filed in my brain under "Gathering" and therefor unable to stand on their own. I still feel I need to get messy with art materials and make something. Or have more photo skill than simply "composition". I don't feel like my photos can be works of art since I don't know how to use lighting, lenses, etc.
But I do totally see your point, that perhaps I should forgo the screenprinting at this point and stick with drawing/painting. We'll see...