by Henk ter Heide on Wednesday October 29, 2008
Here’s the first edition of the new Art showcase. For this first edition I’ve received three submission (plus a few from people trying to sell me something 
).
From A.Decker I got a article about a nice drawing he made last year for his his blog Resonant Enigma. He talks about his way of finding inspiration for his drawings.
Looking over his blog I found that I had made a serious omission when I started this blog carnival. Although I haven’t done many reviews about them the in the last year, photography is also a very important form of art.
On mister Deckers blog I found an other nice article about finding inspiration for photographs.
Todays second entry is a nice art review from the blog The Intellectual Hooligan. The review consists of a few very nice picture of something you might call sculptures by Tara Donovan. Especially the first object made from styrofoam cups is brilliant.
Looking through his older posts I found an article with a very long title: It’s The End! Lexicographers and Linguistics Professors Alike Fall Upon Their Swords! Anarchy! Chaos! Terror Stalks The Land!.
The article is about the problems faced by, among others, the modern artist who wants to show his work on the Internet.
I will be holding the third review in reserve because her server is giving an internal error at this moment.
Hopefully this is a temporary problem. If so I will be reviewing this site next month.
Update: The second edition of the Art showcase will be November 26e, 2008.
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by Henk ter Heide on Tuesday June 17, 2008
Talking about the origin of the inspiration of a drawing.
This drawing is a nice example of why drawing of pictures in my mind should be abstract.
This picture came to me in a dream. The dream was about a group of people. For some reason some one asked me to describe the relation between the people.
I suppose that for some one who doesn’t think in picture that would lead to a story about one person being married to an other. Who would be the neighbour of some one else. Who would be befriended with some one. Etc.
But that’s not how my mind works. When I think of the relationship between people or objects I see lines. Some thick, some thin, kind of in color.
Not real color though. I have a kind of dream color. I don’t think if it really exists but in my dream it’s quite clear how it looks.
Then I awaken and have an idea of how the picture looked but without the detail.
Which makes it even nicer to draw. Not knowing the detail gives me a lot of freedom when I’m drawing. I only have to produce a nice picture instead of something that has to look like the picture in my mind.
The nice thing with a drawing like this is that you get to give it a name.
In this case I though I choose a title that enforces the relationship. Although the group of people in my dream wasn’t a family I do like to call the drawing “family” because it’s clear that there should be some sort of relationship.
And of course if something is “tied” there must be strings.
That leaves only one problem.
Having a photographic memory means that with every picture I see I’m reminded of something else I’ve seen. Also with this picture.
I’ve no idea what the picture I’m reminded of is. Maybe it’s part of some famous painting or maybe it’s part of some comic I’ve read. I don’t know.
Kind of when you almost know some ones name. Very annoying.
Family ties
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by Henk ter Heide on Tuesday October 23, 2007
I had a bit of inspiration.
While I was thinking about the colors, shapes and structure or water this shape came to me. Although purple isn’t a color you would expect to find reflected in water, I will need the shape. This fading away of colors. So I thought I might as well do this drawing first.
Smoke
Half way through I realized that this drawing is somewhat similar to Who’s afraid of yellow, red (and blue). Except that with Who’s afraid… I got the fading effect by blending colors. Here I’m trying to draw it holding my pencil underhanded and varying the amount of pressure. (Which actually sounds a lot easier then it is.)
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by Henk ter Heide on Wednesday September 19, 2007
At night lying in bed I close my eyes and look straight ahead and all sorts of pictures pop into my head. Usualy they’re quite nice and sometime they’re very complicated.
Basket case
This drawing resembles one of the most complicated pictures I’ve ever had. Resembles. The colors are all wrong. In a few days I will see if I can draw it the way it should.
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by Henk ter Heide on Monday May 14, 2007
Yesterday I came across a painting that look something like a ink drawing I did during the course. I thought I try to combine the two.
Rockface 2
The ink drawing was of a picture in a magazine of a rock face somewhere in the US. After drawing Rockface 1 I thought that the colored bands must be different kinds of rock. So presumably when the rock face brakes and different parts drop at different speeds the order of the layers will stay the same.
So I made an other one.
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by Henk ter Heide on Monday April 16, 2007
Stephen Wiltshir is a autistic savant. He flies one time over the inner city of Rome and from that he can draw a detailed picture of the town.
People look at him in awe and wonder how it is possible that he remembers so much detail. I’ve wondered how he could remember so much detail. I’ve been taught that you start out with the big picture and go back to fill in the details. But now I’m trying it I’m finding that is not the way my memory works.
Working on a excavator
I don’t remember the big picture. I only have a lot of detail.
The clever thing in what Stephen Wiltshire does is not that he remembers all the detail but that he remembers so much detail that they over lap. Mine don’t. When I try to draw something I remember a lot of detail but I don’t remember enough of the big picture to draw it.
When I look at his picture of the Tokyo skyline I wonder whether I should be jealous of his drawing skills. But I don’t actually think he is drawing. I think he is tracing the picture he sees in his mind.
At the moment I’m kind of at a loss as to how to proceed. When I started drawing a few month ago I expected that I would learn how to make my drawing look like pictures. But after a while I learned that that wasn’t possible. Then I thought that my pictures would look something like those of Stephen Wiltshire. Not with the same amount of detail but something in the general direction.
At this point it seems that I have to make a choise: Either I try to draw object like they are and walk back and forth as often as it needs to get a clear picture in my mind. Or I draw detail of an object and find a way of convey to my audience what it is supposed to be. Either by the way I name it or maybe with a little story.
The question I ask myselve is whether those two methodes are actually excluding each other. Couldn’t I find a way to do both?
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