6, from the series Wake Me Up When the Dead Stop Living.
There’s this guy in my printmaking class…
and he’s incredible. He’s completely spaced out all the time. Softly spoken, avoids answering the tutor’s questions, basically avoids any class work. Yet he comes out at mid semester folio presentation and has the most delicate sketch print I’ve seen. I mean this thing is deep. He can’t even explain it himself. Mostly because he doesn’t have a concept behind it - but it doesn’t matter. He just draws. That’s what makes it amazing. It’s so honest. There doesn’t have to be a meaning behind it. I am seriously considering offering him money to buy it. I find it enchanting. This is art.
Bent Grass
Ink and chalk on reeves, 6”x9”, 2012. By Rachael McHan (for the Proofrok book project)
I guess its a self portrait, in so far as its a silhouette of my head and I love drawing trees… Really pleased with this one, although kinda annoyed by the fact that I think the detail snapshot looks better than the final image.
I love silhouettes. Even more so when there is detail within them. And even more so when the detail is flora.
(Source: macsime)
I need to blog more. I need to become more involved with art.
