VAE: Pulp
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Drawings, Shows
If you happen to be in North Carolina this month from July 1st – 28th, come check out Pulp in the Main Gallery at VAE (Visual Art Exchange), in Raleigh, where two of my unframed sketches for larger projects will be on exhibit. I am pretty excited about this show because these two specific drawings have never been displayed anywhere before. I also like the fact that this show is fairly informal, stressing the unframed nature of the work (which also makes it easier to ship!) The guidelines for the show were pretty simple: “Unframed works on paper. Artist books, sketchbooks & 3D works welcome. Size requirements for 2D works: 20×30 inches (standard sized drawing paper) minimum, 72 inches maximum.”
Study for Transmeanderation • Ink on translucent butcher paper • 24″ x 18″ • 2009
Preliminary Sketch for Habakkuk • Graphite • 32″ x 48″ • 2010
Grubby paws, measly mitts, and metacarpal mélange
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Drawings
The summer has begun and I will soon (very soon) get back to creating art other than hands! Currently, I’m in the process of finishing up some ‘end-of-the-school-year’ business, and once that is done, I promise to have some other posts besides my hand-a-day drawings. But, for the time being, please enjoy this edition of hand drawings, titled: “Grubby Paws, Measly Mitts and Metacarpal Mélange”:
Gotta hand it to you. . .
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Drawings, Sketchbook
And, more hands. . .
Year of the Hand
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Drawings
A few weeks ago, as a warm-up exercise in my Basic Drawing class, I had my class draw their own hand. I explained to them that the hand was a very difficult thing to draw and that if you master the art of drawing the hand then you are well on your way to being able to master drawing the human body. I also explained that it is a handy (get it?) object to have around because your hand will always be there and you can draw it any time, any place and you can never say that you don’t have something interesting and challenging to draw.
So, I’ve decided to take my own advice. I have officially embarked upon a year long venture of drawing a hand-a-day. I began this project on February 18th, 2011 – so hopefully by February 18th, 2012 I will have a few sketchbooks filled with at least 365 hand drawings! Below are a few of my more successful studies in the past month. The media range from graphite, to ink, to marker, to color pencil. Click on the image for a closer view:
Sketch for new project
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Drawings, Sketchbook
Sketch for a new project I’m working on:
14″ x 17″ • Bristol board • Pen, ink, marker, china marker, color pencil
Zodiac (Unused)
Posted by David Mazure | Filed under Diagrams, Digital, Drawings
This may be the last of my ‘digging-into-the-past-for-old-artwork’ posts. This one is titled Zodiac. I vividly remember spending hours upon hours on this project. It was intended to be printed digitally as an inkjet print and then installed as one long diagram/drawing (as if you connected the four pieces below into one long strip). It is a shame that I never did anything with this, especially considering how much time and energy I expended upon it.
