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Sunday 10 March 2024

Spain again...

Off to Valencia soon to deliver on a promise I made last summer, I have packed a small drawing kit (no slate or chalk) and this reminded me I had not posted any of the Peniscola drawings made in the summer of 23, so here they are some of them...











Ephemeral Drawings


After working with Inktense on paper for some months or years (I honestly cannot remember) I have had a spell working on slate with chalk, same process, draw a depth pass, then draw a colour study and combine later, here are some examples... 


A big part of the fun is erasing them after a quick iPhone photo...the images are twice the size of the previous series and exploit more 3D techniques



Wednesday 21 June 2023

35mm Ektachrome...not

Penarth Head 23 / 05 / 23

Seven Barrows 27 / 05 / 23

Silbury Hill 29 / 05 / 23

South Stoke 17 / 06 / 23

 

Sunday 23 April 2023

Digitally Remastered Drawings Explainer

Here is a breakdown of the working process, B/W drawing, colour drawing, depth map, colour shader added to the depth plus virtual glass


and if you have any red/cyan glasses, try this view



Here is a sequence showing the virtual glass block




Sunday 2 April 2023

230402_A_to_D

 230402_A to D: 

First drawings for April in the a series of landscape drawings made in the Chilterns and North Wessex Downs AONBs, mainly based around the river Thames. I make two drawings, a black and white depth map, and a colour version with less tonal information, the two are combined and rendered to give more depth and texture to the finished image. I am planning to keep a number of my favourite ones together as a changing group to see them as a set, search for jonathanspencer on saatchiart.com or click here https://www.saatchiart.com/jonathanspencer






Tuesday 7 March 2023

230305_A to D

This Sunday it was back up to the 'four fields' which I think of as the 'four chairs', due to some discarded but serviceable green garden furniture, good to sit on whilst drawing. I used some wax resist (a candle) for the colour versions this time which was great fun as I didn't know quite where the marks were or what their effect on the colour would be, the second one down shows just how far this can mess it up. I will do this again.






Friday 17 February 2023

A Rolling Unlimited Edition

I have enough work to start a page on Saachi Art, my plan is to always have 18 prints available through the year, as I create new ones that I am happy with I will replace the older ones or ones that I feel have been superseded. This way I can follow the progress of the year and my own development. The relationship with the landscape shifts with the seasons and I hope the works will represent that incremental change.   

The prints will be printed on good quality artist paper and fixed with acid free tape to mounting board, with a LP plastic sleeve and a sticker that links to this very blog. I am aiming for that box fresh excitement of new vinyl from the record store, obviously without the music. Whilst this is not an edition the shelf life of the artworks is limited. 



Maps of Flatter Worlds

My video work is an attempt to make animated paintings with audio, which fits within the cannon of abstraction. Hence the revisiting of a pa...