Video of Drawings

I produced lots of drawing with the drawing apparatus and instead of posting photographs of each one separately I though making a video almost like a stop motion would be an interesting little project for me to do and here it is. This video is almost like an explosion of movement, maybe explosion isn't the right word because to me that makes me think of destruction and aggressiveness but hopefully you'll understand what I mean after watching the short video.

Slightly disappointed with the quality of the video when I uploaded it but its the best I could get.

Movement

I am really enjoying producing drawings with my new drawing instrument that I blogged about earlier in my blog, all I have to do is place it on top of a piece of paper and with gentle movements just tap the wire in different places and with different forces. As the wire is so much like a spring even the slightest tap will cause it to wobble, vibrate, sway or bounce, movement is the most important factor with this instrument. It showed me how even the slightest movement in space can leave marks and traces.

Here are some of the outcomes, I produces lots and I love how each drawing is so is so unique and individual, no two are the same, they look so delicate and intricate as each little mark represents a movement.

You can click on each photo individually to take a closer look at the detail involved.

Wire and a pen is all I needed!

After lots of trial and error and failed attempts I finally came up with a new method of drawing that I think is blog worthy. Twisting and bending wire in many ways I eventually came up with a spiral cone shape, almost like a spring and simply just attaching a pen to it. My new drawing apparatus! so simple to make yet it took me so long to figure out the correct form and shape. So here it is.

You can see how the wire is coiled in a spiral shape with an ink pen attached in the centre. Now I am going to start producing lots of drawings which will soon be posted on my blog.

Inventing Drawing Instruments

I was just thinking back on the artwork of Tim Knowles and how he cleverly creates drawing devices and apparatuses to create amazing works of art caused by movement. I love how his approach and work enables him relinquish some of his artistic control leaving a lot up to chance and movement within a space. So now I'm going to set myself a challenge and come up with some ideas and drawing instruments of my own! 

Ink in Water

After I cleaned my paintbrush in a cup of water I began noticed the movement of the ink I was using as it spread creating interesting shapes and forms in the water. I thought about how interesting it would be to capture this before the ink spread too much in the water. I got a glass bottle filled it with water and put a thin layer of cooking oil at the top. (The ink didn't move as quick through the layer of oil, this gave me a chance to prepare to capture the movement at the right moment as the ink entered the water).

Just Thought it was Interesting

So I don't think this really relates to my project but as I was clearing my desk in college I noticed a cup that had been filled with water i was using to clean my paintbrushes. All the water had evaporated leaving this interesting ink design at the base. 

Drawing With Milk

I cut up some newsprint into small squares, I drew on these pieces of paper using milk, the drawing at first was only visible for less than a minute as it soaked into the paper and began to dry fast so a lot of the time I lost track of marks I had made and ended up overlapping certain parts of the drawings. To make these drawings visible again I held the drawing over my fire at home, the heat caused the milk to change colour and become visible. The longer it was held over the heat the darker the milk drawing got.