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Cherry

By Di_Hard

Tue, 28 Dec 2021
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In rows, shining stems and identical, (almost)

spikey tips, grey. Where could each take me?

Their names gave nothing away : HB, 2B, 

etc pointless as a road without scenery or signs.

To hold one, scrabbled from the sleek cling 

of numbers was to hold a seed, a root, a waiting

to find itself on paper. I could release the core,

free it in a scribble, tame it like a horse

to ride my imagination, map unfolding thoughts.

Then I bought a 4B, by mistake. Broad. Strong.

POWer. The line became my partner

in new found certainty and nuances of smudge

dreams become 3D, leave their fingerprints on reality.

When you fall in love with darkness, life is never still

 

 

from reading Ewan's brilliant poem : https://www.abctales.com/story/ewan/pencils

 

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Submitted by catherine poarch on

Thank you! And just wanted to say I agreed with both of you. smiley  You know, I get around writing problems (eg structure) with my students because I just want them to enjoy it and describe things etc. There must be an art equivalent.  I don't know if there's anything online, Turlough? I'm sure you will find your own style though! Happy New Year!

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Catherine, and Turlough, thankyou so much for these comments! Am really sorry has taken me so long to reply. Have been wondering how and have asked my partner about this? He says, what he does is 

Make some random marks on the paper, without thinking. Then, look at them and see if you can find an image in there, or a direction and add more to make this clearer.

What I do, (it is a thing children do in primary school, and in art therapy, I believe, Catherine have you done this as part of your work?) is listen to music and make marks on the page to the feeling of the music? I like it because am a bit one of those people who sees sounds, but I think anyone can. 

The aim is to break the ice of your paper.

If the music thing doesn't work for you, Turlough, you said you like gardening, well if you were given a flat boring field to make a new garden, perhaps you would want to put in some trees and then other ideas would flow round that - where the light would come and where the shade, could climbers grow up them? Then you would be thinking what times of year they would be doing their thing, so what could you plant to be interesting in other seasons? Then what could fill in the gaps? Maybe only do a few marks a day, then come back next day and see what would make it better?

You don't have to buy lots of expensive paint, you could start with poster paint, or collage, just to get the hang of making compositions, the power of deciding where to put the colours. Try looking at artists who worked with music eg Chagall, Klee, Kandinsky

Truly, if you can appreciate beauty, you can make it!!! 

 

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

Catherine, and Turlough, thankyou so much for these comments! Am really sorry has taken me so long to reply. Have been wondering how and have asked my partner about this? He says, what he does is 

Make some random marks on the paper, without thinking. Then, look at them and see if you can find an image in there, or a direction and add more to make this clearer.

What I do, (it is a thing children do in primary school, and in art therapy, I believe, Catherine have you done this as part of your work?) is listen to music and make marks on the page to the feeling of the music? I like it because am a bit one of those people who sees sounds, but I think anyone can. 

The aim is to break the ice of your paper.

If the music thing doesn't work for you, Turlough, you said you like gardening, well if you were given a flat boring field to make a new garden, perhaps you would want to put in some trees and then other ideas would flow round that - where the light would come and where the shade, could climbers grow up them? Then you would be thinking what times of year they would be doing their thing, so what could you plant to be interesting in other seasons? Then what could fill in the gaps? Maybe only do a few marks a day, then come back next day and see what would make it better?

You don't have to buy lots of expensive paint, you could start with poster paint, or collage, just to get the hang of making compositions, the power of deciding where to put the colours. Try looking at artists who worked with music eg Chagall, Klee, Kandinsky

Truly, if you can appreciate beauty, you can make it!!! 

 

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Sorry Di, I've only this seen your comment from a week ago. Breaking the ice on the paper, as you suggested, sounds like the answer to my trepidation and I will certainly have a crack at this in the not too distant future. Your words of encouragement are greatly appreciated though I might need a few more once I get started.

Turlough

Submitted by catherine poarch on

I didn't get a notification of your comment, Di-Hard, so good to have Turlough's to flag it up. I teach students with learning difficulties - I've not done the music thing myself but a fantastic colleague does and it sounds great. I've done quite a lot of creative writing with them and I think I always try and break it down a lot/make things tactile. So maybe it's the same in art. I put an idea on my (ha ha, don't laugh) blog that takes away the worry about structure. (wordish.uk)

There must be an art equivalent. Something patchworky! 

really interesting reading both your comments. smiley

 

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