daily practice: sketch 2

The following sketches were studies I did to explore the nature and aesthetic of two works recently featured in the "Dancing with the Dragon" exhibition, a gallery of contemporary art out of Beijing at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts.


The above study was of a piece called "Blackboard" by Hu Sheng Ping. The piece was created by burning hand-made paper and stretching and gluing it onto large pieces of hardboard. It consisted of ten individual panels, each probably about eight feet tall and two feet wide, and then hung on the wall and spaced two to three inches apart. These sketches are my pencil-on-paper renderings of the different panels, done in an effort to explore the curious textures created by the artist. [think enormity, texture, black, whole, and parts]



This study was of a piece called "East-Mountain" by Zheng Xuewu. Zheng Xuewu was also the curator of the Beijing art exhibit, a meditative artist, and a cool guy. This piece was a modern interpretation of traditional Chinese landscape painting, a beautiful natural image created using traditional techniques and a uniquely grey-scale color palette. These trees were only the foreground. [think solitary monks]