the paper Tardis

Posted on 23 August 2011 by sgolding

happened to take me back to Adelaide in 2004, when I opened a sketchbook in my collection of drawings

a person in the crowd at a writers week talk…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and then off to the ASO..

ink sketch of the Basses

 

 

 

 

 

 

ink sketch of a first violin 2004

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ink and wash of a first violin

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Schilling playing the double bass- I worked up a painting from this.

 

 

 

 

and lastly a drawing of janis Laurs playng cello, I love the intensity of his involvement with the instrument when playing.  This too developed further into a painting and later a sitting grew into a portrait and an archibald entry

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why the chop

Posted on 18 August 2011 by sgolding

Louis Armstrong is always said to have been concerned about the state of his chops.  I sign my drawings and painting using a chop; a seal using red ink given to me by a kind translator ms Shanna Lin on a trip to Taiwan in 1998 to row in a university regatta.  Each of the crew recieved a personal chop. I have been using mine ever since – it features on the top right of the website.  It is a rebus or visual pun on my name combining the kanji for gold and the kanji for ding – the hammer of a gong.  I like the wit in it and feel it finishes a drawing more neatly than a mere scrawl across the page.

 

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a woodblock for colour printing requires

Posted on 14 August 2011 by sgolding

each colour impression to be on a flat block which matches each of the others, a few tries at it tells you this.  So when I painted this study, based on a Ukiyo e print by Utamaro, I reworked the form.

oil on shaped canvas 25 by 25 cm (approx)

The shaped canvas is almost sculptural and echoes the concept that there is more than one artist in a Ukiyo e print, the darwing maker, the block carver and the block inker.  Sadly I did not have a team and had to do it all myself…

to show its form

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A walk in the damp underbrush…

Posted on 12 August 2011 by sgolding

of a landscape.

Here is a watercolour i did of Wilson’s prom in 2006.  I worked this in terms of the use of negative spaces and the manipulation of liquid colour across the surface to gain a lovely hue and abstract quality of the painted surface.

pencil, watercolour and ink and wash 60 by 75 cm

It was from this that I moved on to a painting, oil on linen in the studio- here it is just finished on the easel in 2006.

 

 

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