watercolor, graphite, charcoal, handmade chalk on paper
18” x 24”
“All art made and perceived is filtered through our experiences. scrutinized experiences can foster profound ideas. effective communication of those ideas can promote profound creative acts. A sincere combination of filtered experiences and well-communicated ideas can help artists to create meaning and profound art.” So Randy Williams, artist and visiting, virtual instructor introduced this unforgettable Wintersession course.
The selection of drawings, fragments, studies, and close-ups in no way reflects the enormity of this remote studio with its emphasis on process and call to embrace the mantras of “discipline and self-analysis” and “repetition as the constant companion of nature.” For twelve five-hour remote sessions over the five-week semester, we discussed a sequence of compelling global texts, artists’ works, and each other’s. We were invited “to look at our secrets, mysteries, and passions as sources of inspiration.” Our drawings, Randy directed, “will be well researched and yet uniquely reflective of each student.”
three artisits: Edvard Munch (Norway), Henry Moore (England), Lee Ufan (Korea) | literature: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (Russia) | music: Felix Mendelssohn's violin concerto in e minor, op. 64 A Midsummer Night's Dream (Germany)
Below: this is who i am | this is who i am not | this is who we could be:
Below: The Myth of Sisyphus, or What Can the Artist Do in the World of Today?
“Weariness comes at the end of the acts of a mechanical life, but at the same time it inaugurates the impulse of consciousness. It awakens consciousness and provokes what follows. What follows is the gradual return into the chain or it is the definitive awakening.” --Albert Camus (1942)
Below: Towards a graphic novel | War and Peace
The Metamorphosis of Prince Andrei Bolkonsky and “Pierre” Bezukhov
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