Figures drawn from life with ink and Chinese calligraphy brushes.
Gesture drawings with subsequent digital modifications.
This series was produced from a simple contour line drawing. The drawing was locally accurate, i.e., followed the contours of the body, but was somewhat distorted and exaggerated the foreshortening and enlargement of the legs due to their closer proximity. The exercise was to create lighting and render the image in different media. I chose acrylics, oil, collage and watercolor.
A reductive process. The charcoal covered paper was 'erased' to form an image. This was digitally modified by first, smoothing the lines with a smudge tool, second, half-toning the neutral image to create blocks of color, third, passing the image through an impressionist filter to fragment the colors and finally, reducing the resolution to create larger pixels and to 'average' out light and dark pixels.
This image consists of multiple layers of different media. The undermost layer is conte crayon. That was blended with a turpentine soaked rag. The resultant image was painted with several layers of acrylic and occasional conte and turpentine worked in. The final accents were placed in conte without any blending to produce bits of confetti. An electronic image loses much of the effect.
This was a composite of three women. It has had no digital manipulation and was produced with very softly blended pastels on a green-based paper.
A color change form the original charcoal sketch and then a minimalist
image that was digitized. Original printout of this version is about 24
inches loong.
A digital modification of a charcoal gesture drawing.
This was originally one of several charcoal
gestures on a single page. The original was entered into the computer
and the surrounding images deleted. The slight color tinge upon
digitization was saturated to produce this
effect.
This was 'painted' with a blow torch and an air-powered grinder on a sheet of 'aspenite' particle board. The image was one taken from a watercolor sketch in an art book.
Acrylic
on cardboard.
A monotype of Duchane.
Thin acrylic paints. About 2 minute gesture. Blue was an appropriate
color to use here. The model had bright blue, short hair.
What isn't showing was the extensive tatooing, scarification and piercings.
Charcoal and acrylic on mat board.
Original in pastels. Digitized and 'painted' using various color 'rules,' i.e., subtractive, XOR, etc.
DEIDRE'S DRAWINGS
Two of Deidre's first figure works.
One of De's best pieces. It wa sin a show at th Broadripple art center
and took an award.