I am grateful to share my aesthetic experience here. Following are a few results from my quest for knowledge through digital drawing pedagogy:
above illustrates 10-hours of my contour, model & gesture techniques digitally drawn of a sculpture by Albert Payley: Candelstick (composed within windows & walls of Memorial Art Gallery 2016)
The things you will do - over and over again - are but practice. They should represent to you only the result of an effort to study, the by-product of your mental and physical activity. Your progress is charted … in the increased knowledge with which you look at life around you.
—Kimon Nicolaïdes: The Natural Way To Draw
enjoy a 3-minute animation of my 6-hours digitally drawing a photograph by Robert Polidori: Bedroom (video ends with the inclusion of six artifacts, digitally drawn by me, from the Memorial Art Gallery 2016) Song: Beautiful from Sunday in the Park with George soundtrack 1984
The relationships in art are not necessarily ones of outward form, but are founded on inner sympathy of meaning.
—Wassily Kandinsky: Concerning the Spiritual in Art
I am interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures and uncertain endings, an art (and a politics) in which optimism is kept in check and nihilism at bay. —William Kentridge
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