February 19, 2005
Serape
Serape Instructions:
- Copy the complete body of HTML below
- Paste into a plain text document (for example, on Windows use Notepad, on Mac use TextEdit)
- Save the file to the Desktop as "20050219Serape.htm" (no quotes)
- Locate "20050218SquareRainbow.htm" on the Desktop and double click to view in browser
URL (http://www.chrisashley.net/weblog/archives/week_2005_02_13.html#000686) in the message (depending on how you send it and how they recieve it the recipient will hopefully see a nice picture rather than many lines of code).
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Serape, 2005, HTML, 379 x 393 pixels
February 18, 2005
Square Rainbow
Square Rainbow Instructions:
- Copy the complete body of HTML below
- Paste into a plain text document (for example, on Windows use Notepad, on Mac use TextEdit)
- Save the file to the Desktop as "20050218SquareRainbow.htm" (no quotes)
- Locate "20050218SquareRainbow.htm" on the Desktop and double click to view in browser
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Chris Ashley: Square Rainbow, 2005, HTML, 340 x 340 pixels
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Square Rainbow, 2005, HTML, 340 x 340 pixels
February 17, 2005
Untitled 1-8
Untitled 1-8, 2005, HTML, 420 x 580 pixels each (source)
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On 20050207 I posted two drawings, one from 20030207, the other from 20030903, that had been inserted into one of my goofy fake gallery views. I had forgotten about these drawings, but the great thing about weblogs and photo album software that scans your disc is that you find things you hadn't thought about in awhile
So I looked at these drawings, and remembered how they're done. These are from a period when I would draw little motifs in fields in HTML tables, and then copy and paste small sections all over the table, and then copy another small section and paste it in areas around the table, building up a kind of density, repeating small sections over other sections. It's a technique almost more like rubber stamping, and there's a kind of building-up of density and a patterning that can emerge, but the repeated images get halved, disrupted, broken.
I describe an easy technique to try, but it's also kind of maddening to actually get a decent, final, coherent image. It often requires a little manual tinkering to make a composition that feels contained within the four sides of the rectangle.
So there are several things I wanted to do with the eight drawings in this series:
- Use the technique describe above, see how it worked for me this time.
- Make an integrated image, one that feels whole, despite its collage-like process.
- Do some more drawing with the blue and gold palette inspired, in particular by Wang Ximeng's (1096-1119, Song Dynasty) A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains (see 20040905 post this weblog).
- Work in a horizontal format, which is not my tendency
- Enliven an image with another color- the red: how to work that in, make it fit, and still be both disruptive and coherent.
Documentation
Sliabh Ruadh, 2005, oil on canvas, 16 x 12"
In progress, 2005, oil on canvas, 18 x 14"
Untitled (Red & Gray), 2005, oil on canvas, 16 x 12"
February 16, 2005
February 15, 2005
February 14, 2005
Untitled Pair
Untitled Pair, in progress, oil on canvas, 18 x 14" each
Album 3
Album 3, 2005, watercolor & ink on paper, 5 leaves, approx. 10 x 8.75" each
Album 2
Album 2, 2005, watercolor & pencil on paper, 5 leaves, approx. 10 x 8.75" each
Album 1
Album 1, 2005, watercolor & ink on paper, 5 leaves, approx. 10 x 8.75" each
Carpenter's Blues
Three of four canvases, in progress, tentatively titled "Carpenter's Blues," oil on canvas, 18 x 14" each.