I had the audacity to turn your attachment
into a format I could respond to. See beneath.
It is a format I have always enjoyed, perhaps
more from my own point of view than the one intended
by my student.
1. It reminded me of an exercise my dear pal and colleagueGeorge Hardie https://www.fulltable.com/vts/aoi/h/hardieg/menugh.htm
would give our MA students as a sort of limbering
up. It was a sort of game and he offered a bottle of wine to the winner. It develops mental alacrity and graphic skills at speed without pretending to the aesthetic / monumental.
On a single sheet of paper briefly indicate a grid
perhaps six by six. It can be precise or vestigial.
On the command “GO” draw as many different and individual objects in that grid before the time’s up (six minutes say) For personal exercises it would be six by six but for all the fun of the group, George made it ten by ten.
This is an exercise you could try with individual abstract sketches each of which must be different. Like the attachment beneath They may tell a story, they may
be purely a formal game you play from left to right or
up and down the grid. The drawing you sent me made me remember this and I wondered whether it might amuse you to try.
2. I know only what I have seen of your work but know
about your bespoke clothes business in Ukraine. I was guessing you have a keen sense of the Pattern and the flow of the surface. hence exploring the spatial and formal dynamics of pattern making might be profitable to developing your art.
https://www.fulltable.com/vts/p/pattern/menux.htm
The overarching point of this is to relax but get used to
expending energy over a short burst of time. And testing
yourself with clear limits. To stop feeling “here comes another one” and get your drawing to be consolidated in given finite projects e.g. nudes / abstract inventions / landscape and texture
It always led to interesting sketchbooks from students who were always asked to reflect in under 50 words on each exercise.
Artists who’ve done work like this include
Mark Tobey
Jasper John
but I have loved some drawing books at
https://www.fulltable.com/vts/d/drw/drw.htm
George used to play the game with his kids and learn lots.
Happy Easter CHRIS
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