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The Artful Readers Club for January
Artist's Journal Workshop: Creating Your Life in Words and Pictures by Cathy Johnson Sat in front of a local church on a sunny Saturday, then picked some flowers to examine. I only had a pencil so I added the watercolor later. Armed with few supplies, I went to one of my favorite spots and doodled. Lines added in Photoshop before posting...timid me. Please note: I recommend this book for any artist at any stage...my reference to 12-13 year olds in this review, is remarked due to the value of journaling. It's actually a very sophisticated book on many levels. In a brief shuffle through the pages of Artist's Journal Workshop , I found myself conflicted. The book contains numerous examples of a style of art making that toggles between the hugely personal and a publishable 'look'. So, with that...the book set up on my shelf for nearly a year. Now, after an honest read, I still feel a bit conflicted...but in a way that offers some inspir...
This is classical Kelly.
ReplyDeleteThe beautiful triangle in the middle formed by the birds (‘the triangulation point’).
The telephone wires and the tree branches.
The blue sky and the diagonals.
At the base of the image, with the tree in the middle, there is a floating cloud to the left and to the right, a roof. Why the cloud? Why the roof?
The gaze is upon a height in which reality melts into the abstract, in which the domestic order of the house is fading away? I think the answer lies in the way the composition builds the trees. Let us read from left to right.
The cloud. Invisibility. The insubstantial. The trees begin to grow ever larger from this point. Towards the end of the beautiful triangulation point of the birds, one grows tallest. All the wires and networks manage to become grafted within it. An organic and cybernetic synthesis. New growth – Spring. And thus, above the roof, above the private, a new public order – the internet world.