Intricacy in form is something that always attracts me, so when I saw a photo taken by a friend of an elaborately curled and frilled tulip I was inspired to use that as a starting point for a large drawing. As always happens, the drawing has moved a long way from its origins, and taken on a life of its own, becoming an abstract form.
The loose base drawing was done with a large brush in Liquid Pencil, then drawn into with coloured pencils, each mark leading to the next. It has a sense of bursting out and flying away, and not really plant-like at all close up, maybe more menacing and fleshy, but still with its own beauty. Settling on a title is tricky – at present it is Primavera, meaning Spring, which works with the origin in a tulip, but maybe still not right … another thought I had was Tapestry, because of the intricacies of the patterning, but that still doesn’t really cover it. Any thoughts would be appreciated!
The drawing is 64 x 47 cm, on yupo paper, using Liquid Pencil and Caran d’Ache Luminance pencils.
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I like the early stages in mainly black and white
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The early stages are just a rough block in, I don’t think it would stand alone as a convincing image.
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I understand that the b & w is a precursor to a finished work. I liked its simplicity I guess. Your work is great.
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Black and white was always my first choice, it’s taken me a long time to arrive at colour! The liquid pencil base offers so many possibilities, I could easily just work in monochrome for a future work, which would be a move away form the intensity of colour of these recent pieces, towards something more delicate. So many options! Thanks for your comments.
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The journey I go on when I look at this very powerful piece (it must look awesome in its hugeness) is to think energy. I go from that to explosion. And then I see a dance – in particular the ferocious energy of the flamenco. The fury of the dancer’s expression, the deliberate stomps of feet and wild swirls of fabric is all here. This is what I see in what started as a tulip. Marvelous.
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Maybe Flamenco will be the title – I have been agonising over this. ‘Primavera’ is really too gentle and polite for this work, it has too much energy in it for a sweet and dainty title. Thank you! I knew I could rely on you for a new insight!
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Glad to be of help. I think “Flamenco” would be a great title, due to all of the above as well as the petals having a flame-like quality. Agreed that this is not a gentle piece, it is a passionate piece, not that the two need be mutually exclusive. (I would have seen your post earlier but I was away where there was no internet.)
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Gentle and passionate, that could be an interesting combination. Something to think about in the future! (I had realised you were away, when I saw your photo of Matthew and the bird! Am writing very soon …)
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