Over the Christmas holidays, I have introduced another change (besides adding erase) to my colouring book drawings. After making 1500 drawings, I need injection of new forms and shapes and composition. Hence, I have started to look at art work from the past, and art work from today's artists, and treat them as subjects for new drawings.
The first such drawings are drawings of King Tut.
The second batch are drawings based on the the work of John Baldessari.
"Erase" is a drawing process that I have acknowledged early on but never used as a major way to construct drawings. In 2010, I will be using it more, starting with these drawings.
To show the lines that have been erased, I have left a trace of them in the final work.
A doodeo of 6 drawings done on Oct 8th, 2008.
20 drawings were made on the first Drawing Day. Below is the recording.
Drawing 1 to 8
Drawing 9 to 16
Drawing 17 to 20
I came across this wonderful video through Drawn.ca.
I have never thought there can be so much drama in watching a child painting the alphabets.
This video also happens to be an excellent illustration of my ideas on ...
1) Writing being a form of Drawing (illustrated by young Gradus W. Wouters on the left), and ...
2) Drawing being a form of Writing (illustrated by Job Wouters on the right).
This is my personal "theory and practice" for drawing abstract line art.
1) Writing is a form of drawing.
All of us have "drawn" writings. It happened when we first learnt to lay down the strokes of an unfamiliar handwriting. The scenario can be a child learning to write A-B-C for the first time, or a Westerner learning to write Chinese or Kanji characters.
2) Drawing is a form of writing.
All of us have also "written" drawings. We call them stick figures. The convention is simple. The head is drawn as a circle. Body, arms and legs are simple straight lines.
3) The Theory
Drawing stick figures is no different from writing A-B-C.
To "write" more elaborate drawings, we need more "writing parts" - besides circles and straight lines, and be adventurous in how to put these parts together.
Just as we are capable of learning A-B-C and drawing stick figures, (my theory says) all of us are also capable of creating complex abstract line art - by treating it as a form of writing.
4) In Practice
Based on this theory, I have been experimenting with drawings that I collectively refer to as the The 10,000 Page Colouring Book. Through the experimentation process, I began to establish a set of frequently used "writing parts".
