Disagree with 'mistakesonpurpose'; as with verbal lauguage it is relative to eloquence. Agree with stick in dirt yet paper is easier to put in portfolio.
The mistakes just happen to mean or do something...sometimes. But drawing in the dirt or sand is a wonderful experience until the rain or sea washes it away. And it seems to eventually do that no matter what medium we perpetrate.
Hello Stephen, for sure paper is easier to put in a portfolio, ship, hang, or market than dirt (though a few artists have had a whirl at it)! As to 'mistakes made on purpose' relating to verbal eloquence, I am not quite sure what you mean, though I appreciate what I sense of your idea. Perhaps the kind of 'mistake' I mean relates most to poetry, not the prosaic kind but the kind that reappropriates language in surprising ways. Dylan Thomas and Rimbaud come to mind.
Bruce, I agree. It's the job of the artist to notice them and decide whether to keep or change them. I enjoy that process. As to Mr. Sacks's comment, I always took it to mean that drawing is the skill and it doesn't matter what medium you use. Your point about everything washing away no matter what is beautiful, and true.
2003 I believe daughter & I Scotland beach drew several images took photos which are around here somewhere, one worked out nicely. Earlier, daughter made clay tortellini which looked humorously real, we set up brunch, took photo. So, yes there is pleasure in this doing, other sorts thereafter, the various thrills of composing, performing, listening for instance despite time ~ delighted Chandler uses acid free paper.
Stephen, love these two stories. Yes, there is great pleasure in the doing, and in the end, perhaps it's the doing or the effect on us (the viewer and the maker) of the doing that is the only lasting thing.
Funny you should mention acid free paper - it was trained into me always to use archival materials, yet there are so many artists working in cardboard, magazine collage, string, rubber bands, earth, food and countless other more rapidly perishable mediums that sometimes I wonder what longevity is for. Still, in the interests of good value for the present, assuming there is value in something I make, I'll keep working acid-free. With the occasional dirt-drawing to keep it all in perspective.
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Disagree with 'mistakesonpurpose'; as with verbal lauguage it is relative to eloquence.
Agree with stick in dirt yet paper is easier to put in portfolio.
The mistakes just happen to mean or do something...sometimes. But drawing in the dirt or sand is a wonderful experience until the rain or sea washes it away. And it seems to eventually do that no matter what medium we perpetrate.
Hello Stephen, for sure paper is easier to put in a portfolio, ship, hang, or market than dirt (though a few artists have had a whirl at it)! As to 'mistakes made on purpose' relating to verbal eloquence, I am not quite sure what you mean, though I appreciate what I sense of your idea. Perhaps the kind of 'mistake' I mean relates most to poetry, not the prosaic kind but the kind that reappropriates language in surprising ways. Dylan Thomas and Rimbaud come to mind.
Bruce, I agree. It's the job of the artist to notice them and decide whether to keep or change them. I enjoy that process. As to Mr. Sacks's comment, I always took it to mean that drawing is the skill and it doesn't matter what medium you use. Your point about everything washing away no matter what is beautiful, and true.
2003 I believe daughter & I Scotland beach drew several images took photos which are around here somewhere, one worked out nicely. Earlier, daughter made clay tortellini which looked humorously real, we set up brunch, took photo.
So, yes there is pleasure in this doing, other sorts thereafter, the various thrills of composing, performing, listening for
instance despite time ~
delighted Chandler uses acid free paper.
Stephen, love these two stories. Yes, there is great pleasure in the doing, and in the end, perhaps it's the doing or the effect on us (the viewer and the maker) of the doing that is the only lasting thing.
Funny you should mention acid free paper - it was trained into me always to use archival materials, yet there are so many artists working in cardboard, magazine collage, string, rubber bands, earth, food and countless other more rapidly perishable mediums that sometimes I wonder what longevity is for. Still, in the interests of good value for the present, assuming there is value in something I make, I'll keep working acid-free. With the occasional dirt-drawing to keep it all in perspective.