sketching

Quick sketching form this mornings session

I've been thinking about making these sketches since I was in the gallery on Tuesday and I'm quite pleased with the result.  They are very small sketches that I hope to transfer to a bigger scale this afternoon. These two new sketches explore existing mark making processes that I have developed over the past 12 months and I am now working with these methods in new approaches. How composition can come about through initially placing predetermined or ordered lines to generate a starting point for a process to evolve really interests me. I like having something put down on the drawing surface that provides me with the starting point. I can then work with what is in front of me and so the drawing journey begins.  It can result in a totally random and unexpected compositions and this motivates new ideas and processes for further work. As the first few drawings are made and I can get the general feel for a particular series of drawings that are exploring a particular process. Once comfortable I can then concentrate more on making the actual marks on the paper and less about the composition because I can get a general feel for how each one will turn out.  I quite like this experience of drawing, it means that I can become very technically aware of the marks I am making and understand further the different stages of how the composition and structure of a drawing can come together trough very simple and relatively easy mark comes together to form a more involved composition.

• Key word for me to explore: Perturb - To throw into disorder;  derange