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Such by Such (version 7)

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I call this one Such by Such. SXS could be a shortened version of the title. This particular image here is version seven. I had fun tweaking the filtering and color adjustments in Photoshop to reach the results you see. I pasted paper cut out from magazines, and drew alcohol-based marker, and water-based pens on paper to complete the work. I then proceeded to my usual next step of applying water, rubbing alcohol, and lacquer thinner to achieve the psychedelic tie dye effects. The work I do in Photoshop helps to emphasize, exaggerate, and alter the natural bleeding effects that I evoke in physical media.

This current style I’ve been exploring and experimenting with currently utilizing basic lines, points, planes, some shading, and colors is a certain kind of style that mimics a scientific or mathematic spirit. The point, line, and plane are one and two dimensional visual concepts. They can be implied with the third dimension on a two dimensional picture plane by using drawing techniques established since the European Renaissance.

The fourth dimension was theorized about by Einstein in the 20th century. Simultaneously, art in the 20th century started exploring four dimensional visualizations and concepts. Artists, such as Pablo Picasso, M.C. Escher, and Salvador Dali, explored these time warping, perspective fracturing, mind bending, multiple simultaneous points of view ideas in visual art, thus giving a kind of experience for viewers viewing these artist’s works.

I’d say that this idea of multiple points of view was developed by Paul Cezanne and perhaps Eduard Manet, both great French Impressionist, and post-Impressionist artists, first. I think Picasso and Georges Braque would agree. These two artists were inspired by Cezanne and readily admitted so. They developed what they called “scientific cubism,” which takes Cezanne’s nascent perspective distortions into greater degrees of perspective fracturing and bending, thus accomplishing cubes of space, looked at from varying, disjointed points of view, for viewers to see of a whole object.

Braque and Picasso used physical objects, such as people, guitars, and tables, to represent their semi-abstract ideas in their paintings. I’d like to think that I’m taking this concept of cubism a step further by drawing completely abstract lines and shapes that aren’t attempting to represent anything but themselves as abstract lines and shapes. When combined, I often note that they have certain dimensional and cubist qualities to them. They hint at a fourth dimension for me. I simplified the idea of measuring space in the title of this piece by calling it Such by Such because I did not attempt to measure the four dimensional mimicking nature of it. I suppose I was lazy in that regard. Oh well.

 

Specifications:

Title: Such By Such (version 7)

Source mediums: Water-based ink, alcohol-based marker, water, rubbing alcohol, and lacquer thinner on paper, manipulated digitally with filters

Print medium: Hewlett Packard printer ink from Hewlett Packard DesignJet Z2100 printer on Hewlett Packard print paper (Note: print can be made with archival paper and printer if requested)

Digital manipulation completed: 3/13/2018

Dimensions of print: 31 inches by 36 inches

Number of limited edition prints: 25

Contact me: artofevan@hotmail.com

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March 14, 2018 · 5:52 am
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The Curvilinear Traveller (version 1)

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Whimsicality and spontaneity are pretty hard states and results to achieve in art. That is, when you try to line them up with the love of beauty and wonder. Beauty and wonder do require a sense of design and order to some degree or another. I haven’t measured that degree, but it does seem as if there is some intuitive knowledge there at least. It all has to seem effortless, too, which is a state one works oneself into after doing doodles, warmups, practice runs, and exercises.

This piece here achieved a result of such whimsicality and near total spontaneity that I felt it satisfied a certain, but deficiently defined, level of experiment and discovery for me. I have been trying to achieve this level ever since. But this image you see here is part of a larger image I titled Astonished Buoyancy for which I posted here a while back. Astonished Buoyancy is more suggestive of a large balloon in the foreground, whereas this image has the large foreground balloon cropped so that it looks more like the curved surface of a planet in space. There is still an orange balloon shape in the background at the upper part of this illustration however.

I just became thrilled with the nebula and clouds pervading the space around the objects, which add to the life, dimension, and mystery of the work. When I was physically drawing the drawing this image was derived from on a piece of paper, I made sure not to get overly preoccupied with the lines I was drawing for delineating the forms. This is what I feel is the whimsical aspect. The spontaneous aspect occurred in the filtering of the image as a whole in Photoshop as I altered the colors, did inversions, and executed sharpening effects. The neutral washes and background colors became even more emphasized and psychedelic as I worked on the piece.

What’s exciting about it to me is that, as I work throughout my entire process of creation for an illustration, both traditionally and electronically, space seems to always want to express itself as something more than mere flat emptiness. It always seems to want to express something more, something just beyond perception, beckoning me and you to explore further, to travel past the obvious and discover whatever it is past the fold, hill or cloud radiating from this particular window in time.

Specifications:

Title: The Curvilinear Traveller (version 1)

Source mediums: Water-based ink, alcohol-based marker altered by lacquer thinner and rubbing alcohol on paper, manipulated digitally with filters

Print medium: Hewlett Packard printer ink from Hewlett Packard DesignJet Z2100 printer on Hewlett Packard print paper (Note: print can be made with archival paper and printer if requested)

Digital manipulation completed: 9/20/2016

Dimensions of print: 25 inches by 24 inches

Number of limited edition prints: 25

Contact me: artofevan@hotmail.com

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December 9, 2017 · 9:01 am
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Hey, I Like The Smell of That (version 3)

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Someone came up to me while I was making this image and smelled like a medicine cabinet. I actually thought “hey, I like the smell of that.” I don’t know what it was. Probably cough syrup or something. I decided to title this image Hey, I Like The Smell of That. For some reason, it makes me think of a person who thinks that in reference to another. 

It looks like there is a cabinet in the background off the the right depicted rather psychedelically, connected by a dot and a line to the large, foreground form. The large foreground form looks like the head of a person. The fact that there is just one dot with a circle around it at the center of the large form makes me think of a cyclops. 

The bigger idea here I suppose is visualizing the act of connecting seemingly disparate ideas, peoples, and events together in the truly nonlinear universe. But of course I could only crudely use linear lines to illustrate the notion of connections. I didn’t use a ruler to draw them though. 

The colors you see in this image here are not the same colors used in the original drawing. The original drawing is “larger” than this one. I titled the original drawing Bear Thread. I selected only a few objects within Bear Thread and made this image. I’m thrilled to make all these different variations from single, original, traditionally created drawings, paintings, and collages. 

I like how, when I start writing about things—anything—art—dreams—whatever, the “ice” melts with regard to the cluelessness I experience before writing. I often can’t come up with a single idea I want to write about in reference to the art I make immediately prior to attempting to write. Perhaps it’s my brain struggling to shift gears; and also the fact that I find myself trying to write at the very end of my day, late at night. Sometimes I just want to write bull-shit, like the mixed nuts with sea salt on them and the gummy bears I just chewed on. I didn’t eat that many, so I don’t feel so thwarted by guilt. I know people will find this paragraph vaguely irritating as a waste of their time, but I needed to write it for the exercise of writer’s block ice-breaking. 

Like medicine, the colors in this image are candy-like. I have found it interesting how medicine and candy have so many similar visual characteristics. I wonder if the pharmaceutical industry intended that. You know, like Skittles, Nyquil, and Desipramine? I guess people like being pleased with the items, UFOs, liquids, and pilly willies they ingest. I’m hoping people also like ingesting my images with their eyes and finding neurological fulfillment therein, or derivatives thereof. 

I can write anything here, and I like that. I don’t want to be limited. That is part of the non-literal message expressed in my work of art here. You see all the forms defying definite boundaries for the most part. I let the splotches, rubbing alcohol dribblings, and ink bleedings flow along paths of their own choosing, though I was the initiator of their expandings, distortings, and explorations. I found the drawing to be exploring itself as I stepped back and observed it at times. 

 

Specifications:

Title: Hey, I Like The Smell of That (version 3)

Source mediums: Water-based ink, acrylic based ink, oil based ink, alcohol-based marker altered by acetone and rubbing alcohol on paper

Print medium: Hewlett Packard printer ink from Hewlett Packard DesignJet Z2100 printer on Hewlett Packard print paper (Note: print can be made with archival paper and printer if requested)

Digital manipulation completed: 10/6/2017

Dimensions of print: 34 inches by 21 inches

Number of limited edition prints: 25

Contact me: artofevan@hotmail.com

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October 6, 2017 · 9:51 am