November 30, 2004
Zen Arcade, Side 1
Zen Arcade, Side 1, 2004, HTML, 594 x 575 pixels
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12:38 AM
November 29, 2004
Black/Red 1-32
Black/Red 1-32, 2004, HTML, 240 x 200 pixels each (view HTML
version, 202 kb)
About Black/Red 1-32
- To start, I just picked a couple of colors, black and red; it seemed
appropriate to the season (late fall, but I'm also thinking of these
colors as this is our first fall in this neighborhood; the light is
different, fades earlier, more trees, a canyon and creek just below
us), and the idea was simply to work with all kinds of blacks and reds,
colors that could be taken for or mean black and red. And there
are also colors in-between, such as, for example, how far can you push
red before it becomes its complement, green, and what happens when different
blacks and reds are mixed?
- Besides sticking to this palette I used some of the usual tricks: overlap,
transparency, non-alignment for subtle tension.
- There is nothing immediately specific about what the drawings are based
on; they're mostly based on other drawings, it would seem. That's not
to say, however, that there is no subject matter. There is also a lot
of... place and presence, environment and atmosphere
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- I've been partial to smaller drawings lately, tending towards vertical
rectangles, so I let myself go with a fairly familiar format of 12 x
10 cells, 20 x 20 pixels each (left).
- I let the vertical orientation take over, and didn't sweat it if just
about every drawing had gravity. That is, there is a strong sense of
bottom, of right-side-up; I didn't try to fight that aspect of realist
composition. And I'm not really that big a fan of Pollock (the aerial allover can be annoying).
- I used two effects I don't often use - shadow and lots
of color gradation; I've avoided these as they too easily veer into illustration,
but for this series I indulged myself in these effects just to see what
would happen. The world didn't end.
- In only one or two other drawing series have I made pairs of drawings
on a single day; usually I do one drawing a day. With this series I
wanted to work through more ideas more quickly and in smaller chunks.
- I had no idea this would turn into thirty two drawings,
although a series of sixteen days isn't untypical. I could've kept going,
but for some reason it feels time to start something else. At thirty two
drawings there's a kind of reinforced endlessness. So, for now, ending
is good.
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02:40 PM
November 28, 2004
Black/Red 31 & 32
Black/Red 31 & 32, 2004, HTML, 240 x 200 pixels each
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12:50 AM
November 27, 2004
Black/Red 29 & 30
Black/Red 29 & 30, 2004, HTML, 240 x 200 pixels each
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11:54 AM
November 26, 2004
Black/Red 27 & 28
Black/Red 27 & 28, 2004, HTML, 240 x 200 pixels each
Posted by chrisashley at
12:24 AM
November 25, 2004
Black/Red 25 & 26
Black/Red 25 & 26, 2004, HTML, 240 x 200 pixels each
Posted by chrisashley at
12:38 AM
November 24, 2004
Black/Red 23 & 24
Black/Red 23 & 24, 2004, HTML, 240 x 200 pixels each
Posted by chrisashley at
12:15 AM
November 23, 2004
