Owner: Thousand Sketches URL:http://www.thousandsketches.com/blog Join Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:19:21 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: A project by Walter Logeman, a psychotherapist from Christchurch New Zealand. Putting up 1000 sketches done on a Tablet PC in one year. Site statistics:Click here
Interview with Eric Maisel 2007-05-09 01:44:49 If you have read my recent posts you will know quite a bit about Eric Maisel, creativity coach and author, he is here now on Thousand Sketches on a tour to promote Ten Zen Seconds, one of his current books, yes he has three that came out this year.
The focus is on the tension between shadow & light, so if that is of interest, read on, and please join the conversation in the comments.
Walter: Hi Eric, thanks for visiting my blog on your world tour. How are your travels so far?
Eric:
Excellent! It has been interesting to see how each host has personalized the process. And the tour has helped to sell out the first edition of the book in its first month, which is unusual … and great!
Walter:
That is inspiring! A blog tour is a creative project, how did the idea originate?
Eric:
I put out a monthly newsletter and I asked my readers if they knew of any out-of-the-box ways to publicize books. One reader, a small press publisher, told me about the successful virtual book tour that
Completely Stopping 2007-05-09 00:19:37
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Pat Hanly 1932 - 2004 2007-05-13 09:20:43
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I went to the “Art of the Nation” at Te Papa and I had a good time. Loved the Hoteres, the Woollastons, one or two of the McCahons and Rembrandt’s etchings. God knows why these, they were ones that gripped me. The item on the cover of the booklet is a painting by Pat Hanly.
I was already in the middle of this sketch, as Hanly was in the Hotere video, they were mates it seems. He is one of the big names in New Zealand.
Links, images follow.
Conversation with Hamish Keith in Art New Zealand.
The image on the cover of the “Programme”:
John Badcock - Passing People 2007-05-12 12:56:40 My friend Sandra showed me John’s book today. I love the work, the concept & the people’s stories. John Badcock is a New Zealand artist who does not live all that far from Christchurch where I live. A few hours drive away to Geraldine.
Links, book image and a photo of his work follows.
3 to 6 - John Badcock - Passing People, originally uploaded by brewbooks.
I have been inspired by him before, see this post.
more on flickr
John Badcocks website
Flax Flower Remains 2007-05-18 14:48:52 Harekeke, New Zealand Flax. I feel connected with it and just took a swag of photos on our recent walks. More coming up.
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This one like the earlier Circle was one where I found the final image by deleting layers, and also by changing the original colour from a heavy black to this golden colour, which really suits this particular subject, this particular flax that is, the variety of the remnants after seeding is enormous. Some are very black. The exploring was satisfying!
Trust Resources 2007-05-18 14:43:06 This is one in the incantation series. One, but there are two images. I have taken to doing these in digital pencil, and then making a negative. It echoes the idea of an in breath and an out breath.
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Everyone is an artist - Joseph Beuys 2007-05-18 14:32:17 I am thinking about art a lot. My art & where it is going. Some key words that stick: iconic - see the Buildings category for example. I want more of the iconic stuff. I need the Christchurch Cathederal. And people, I like to do portraits of people I am reading about or watching on video. Hand is another word, and Line. I like to see my hand in the lines, & I like strong lines, I try to return to more painterly stuff but keep adding lines.
Iconis is one of a list of words I have all pointing in the same direction, Kahn might say Monumental, Jung, archetypal, Moreno psychodramatic. In fact Moreno described the Psychodrama method as: “Exploring truth by dramatic means.” Here I explore truth by the means of lines by my hand. I don’t care if that sounds grandiose! I make no claims though for how successful I am, or that I am there.
Here is another I have just done, I have done about six, not sure which one to post:
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Bunker 1 2007-05-18 14:19:41
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Kate & I have been on some great walks in the Port Hills of Christchurch lately. Above Lyttelton are some old concrete structures, I’ll call them bunkers. The were part of the defences against the Japanese who almost invaded New Zealand in WWII. They are quite beautiful sitting there on the hillside. The remind me of Lois Khan buildings (though I have only seen pix) - and I want to draw more of these buildings with minimalist strong lines. Basic stuff. One Khan image done a while back - Salk Interior.
The sketches are from the photos I took, and here are some more pix, to contextualise the sketches.
Trade Me 2007-05-17 14:28:06 I have just put a few on Trade
me again.
Have a look.
Those images will only be available from Trade Me for a while. I’ll add more soon.
Working hard, movie, Flax & Marcel Duchamp 2007-05-20 10:14:52 Working on the new website for http://www.lyfordtreks.co.nz - it is almost done & will look a lot fresher & be up to date & hosted on a cheaper server. But in the midst of overdoing that my eyes have got very sore - strain? Infection? New drops. Does not stop me from looking though.
Saw the movie
As it is in Heaven feel good type movie but with an edge, I liked it a lot, and the music too. I thought how I would like to make images like that music!
Then to keep going with my flax sketches I took some photos, flax photos & some from a video -> -> ->
And just now, very late at night looking at a video of Marcel
Duchamp, which gives me a blast, a jolt, and makes me quite manic.
Flax 2007-05-25 10:52:43
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As with circles I am repeating an idea. See Moonlight Flax. I am quite taken with that old one. I think more repetition might be a good thing here. Get me off circles.
Flax 2007-05-25 10:50:56
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Flax 2007-05-25 10:50:00
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2007-05-25 10:45:25
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Flax 2007-05-25 10:41:26
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Flax Leaves 2007-05-25 10:39:08
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One more Circle 2007-05-25 10:33:27
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2007-05-25 10:31:01
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How many of these will I do? I was just playing with colour & this emerged, and I liked it. But enough is enough!
Vonnegut - the prints 2007-05-31 07:13:48
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I am reading Bluebeard - a novel and also a profound commentary on art. I will add art quotes here as I go.
The interesting thing is that Kurt Vonnegut is also a print producer, I say is, because new work is coming out posthumously through his screen printer collaborator.
Links:
www.vonnegut.com
Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84: New York Times
Wikipedia
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Wine 2007-05-31 06:20:33
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Techniques
I am trying to learn to “paint” in Painter, but it is hard! I don’t really like the interface & its complexity. ArtRage has that licked! But the functionality is in Painter if you can find it! After trying paint brushes for a while in this sketch I went back to pastel & ink, that seems to be ok. But I am studying the manual, and have the Painter magazine coming each month. Tutorials. I’ll get there.
And I have added this to the SketchBlog category, I drank that wine! And the reflection is my notebook.
Chalice 2007-05-29 18:45:46
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Neil Dawson’s sculpture in the Christchurch square. Had an idea that as I have the Sydney icons and the Wellington one, what about Christchurch? But it is not in that class for me. Not that I don’t like it. I look out my bathroom and there is a mature lancewood, and it creates a silhouette just like sections of the Chalice. It is also somewhat balanced with the tower of the Cathedral, and you’d think that being a person who descends in to alchemical depths that a chalice would suit me more than a spire. But not really in this place.
I’d like to see the square grey and flat with just the cathedral. I’d force the banks to have only human friendly shops facing the square - high incentives for foot traffic friendly places, big tax sticks for glass walls & anything that does not generate foot traffic. More cafes, pubs, galleries, tee shirt shops (
Beehive 2007-05-29 18:31:46
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It loomed like a space ship over me in the dusk. This is in the middle of a city, but the trees and the building filled the scene. This is the government head office in Wellington known as the Beehive.
Café 2007-05-29 18:19:37
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A Pencil layer and an ink layer. Unlike comic artists, I did the ink first!
Later:
I added this one to the Daily painters blog. Said a bit more about sketching. Go Here.
Café 2007-05-28 22:28:13
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Over a fifteen minute lunch break I did a 2 minute sketch. I have pushed it through my file management system & made a blog image and the larger image. When I post this I will see what it looks like!! This is one of the fantasies of my 1000 sketches to sit and do this for hours not minutes. I could then do 1000s. Some sort of perfectionism has crept in. These images are on show! people see them? I am visible. what does that do to me?
Slideshow 2007-06-03 10:12:32 Flickr has an improved slideshow. Here are a few of my sketches - favourites.
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Andy Warhol 2007-06-04 09:19:08
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Wikipedia
Inspiration:
Duchamp 2007-06-16 09:41:39
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I have a lot of time for Duchamp. I recall the controversy when an exhibition came to Sydney, must have been late 50s? I was a kid. I thought it was stupid. But now I can see it more clearly. Art looking at art. Art asking what is art, art art. And here is a sketch, hardly art, but a little portal into the question what is art.
It was Duchamp who came up with the idea of recapitulation art, he had a go at all the styles before him, I can see how that leads to thinking about what it is all about.
One thing that it *is* about is the process, the idea, the concept. Was he the first who really got that? Maybe the first to make that idea into art.
How does it tie in with Thousand Sketches? Simple, the idea in the form of the blog + digital images (all open source & on the web) plus prints for sale is the idea that comes tied into the wehole thing. The prints have the Tho
Half Way 2007-06-16 18:17:28
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It was not really half way on the walk, but it is a nice title for the sketch anyway. And it is half way through the 1000 - I may be a bit behind, but pleased to have made it thus far.
On a recent walking trip with friends from to Sumner to Taylors Mistake and back.
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