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NEW STUDIO Week Sixteen

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This will be the last general post under the new studio banner. It’s not that I’m stopping anything, it’s because I was awarded a grant by Arts Council England to develop the Geranium project. So from next week I’ll be posting Geranium Project 01 and should run up to GP40 by the end of the funding period.

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On Monday 3rd June I worked on four drawings that I began last week, working them together towards a larger drawing that I’d stretched paper for. The drawing process is still build up, break down, build back up. I enjoy the prospect of working to correct as the drawing retains some of the character of the erroneous marks when it’s corrected.

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This is the translation to a unified whole, which is far too twee – I think that’s the word – and required some dissolution and retrieval. I dripped very thin black paint over it, took it off with more paper, dripped white paint over it that I allowed to dry and then worked over that with white conté.

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This is where it was at when I had to stop for the day. The reds have had more pastel applied and the central block has been worked over with more charcoal.

Wednesday 5th June I went in to the studio to find there was leak, I traced it up through three floors to the roof, it damaged a sketchbook.

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This is the sketchbook drip dried through the morning, before I had to split it up to dry in the afternoon.

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I concentrated on six drawings I had started on Monday by ‘mono printing’ off the big drawing.

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Obviously these are still in progress. I then did a little work on the big drawing.

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Friday was a day full of visits again, potential building purchasers, artists looking for studio space and collaborators for the Geranium Project.

In between these and talking to builders and property agents I managed to take down the installation so that I can re-paint and reconfigure it.

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I also managed to work on two drawings from yesterday.

 

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So this weekend will be spent working out the schedule for the Geranium Project.

 

NEW STUDIO Week Fifteen

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Another late post – I need to sharpen up a bit.

I made a series of test videos and tried them out in the space, last weeks caveats apply to the finishes.

The time it takes to render the models is horrendous with my equipment so I need to invest in some better kit.

I was only in the studio for two days because of a meeting and started some drawing and stretched some paper.

In between time I started a painting based on one of the attic drawings.

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All in all a bit of a week to forget.

 

NEW STUDIO Week Fourteen

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Continuing with drawing this week, and having to concentrate on the 3d model because of the poorly cat.

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On Monday I started six new drawings, these had white emulsion painted on the 17th (Friday) and were added to on Monday.

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Also began this drawing on four sheets of A1 cartridge. It harks back, as I realised afterwards, to the ladybird drawings I did an age ago –

https://www.ian-latham.com/blog/2015/08/08/ladybird/

https://www.ian-latham.com/blog/2015/08/15/ladybird-2/

https://www.ian-latham.com/blog/2015/11/28/ladybird-2-finished-in-so-far-as/

– All of these drawings are trying to find a way to realise the 3d model as projection and environment for the installation.

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I thought it was worth including a picture of a sketchbook page with reflections of the day’s activities. I often write in the sketchbook or my diary to record the way I’m thinking, not really to hold on to it but more to be able to see how my thinking has changed through the process.

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On Wednesday I continued working on the drawings from Monday, for some reason I didn’t photograph one of them and I can’t remember why. Wednesday was split up by a visit to a potential new studio in the morning, it has twenty rooms including a small hall/gym and a roof terrace and is just around the corner from where I am now. In the afternoon I had a visit from the architects for the potential buyers who spent two hours measuring for drawings so I’m on borrowed time at the minute.

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I started to pick up the elements from the six drawings in the sketchbook and then developed three new ones from the bottom right sketch.

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On Friday, as I couldn’t get in to the studio I made a model of the middle drawing.

There are also two new garden videos ready for project with a more robust model integrated as a walkthrough but I’m dissatisfied with the experience as it lacks the quality of the drawings.