We'll be meeting next on the 30th of November- that's a Thursday. On the agenda: review sketches done at Elyria Canyon; make printouts or copies of photos taken at the canyon and file them into the white notebook.
Can anybody who can find a 3-hole-punch for the 30th?
The canyon was beautiful and I think the hike reinforces the idea that the process of drawing and painting is experience and consciousness--both a kind of meditation on our surroundings and our place as part of the landscape and also a way to be more fully a part of the land.
Some things I became aware of:
1. the soft borders between pathways and more plant covered areas
2. the ground being covered with mashed and minced dead grasses
3. the different colors of the grasses, from green to straw to gray and moldy
4. the space between the trees and bushes: the way the larger ecosystem spaced and arranged itself
5. the amazing diversity in points of view from the hill: from vistas of 20 miles on the right to walls of foliage two feet away on the left. This is something that we can really push in the mural. One of the most stubborn preconceptions of western art is the idea of illusionistic space--that things recede into an illusionary space on the wall or canvas. After being up in the hills, it came to me that the hills don't lend themselves to that type of illusion and that the mural should reflect the more organic notions of space that the hills suggest.
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