I tried to create this memory with Kuretake brush pen, overlaid with wax candle to create the ‘holes’ and then Jackson’s ink wash over the top. Day 19 was several marks or vertical dashes, which reminded me of grass poking out from snow – an early memory as a kid, and a sign the snows are over and maybe spring is starting or getting warmer. I also did an ink spiral piece with the Pilot V7 Hi-Tecpoint pen and wash, a very fluid one like fronds of ferns or quarks from a split atom on the A4 acrylic pad. Like A Spiral Within A Spiral, Abstract Advent 18, Pilot V7 technical pen and Kuretake Brush pen and wash, A4 acrylic pad. It was quite hard to work with the Woody pencils to try and get them flat (and crisp) and even. Because like the Magritte work, it isn’t a snail, it’s an abstraction of a snail….and even it if was a perfectly painted snail like the Magritte pipe, it would still not be a snail. Hence I translated ‘This is not a pipe’ to ‘This is not a snail’. I had the idea to combine it as a mashup with another work, Rene Magritte’s The Treachery of Images. Ceci n’est pas un escargot (Matisse vs Magritte Mashup), Abstract Advent 18, Woody Pencils and Inktense pencil, A4 sketchbook.ĭay 18 was a spiral – a common shape in my abstract work, but I was reminded of classic abstract piece Henri Matisse’s Snail, something I’ve seen many times at the Tate. The Meal (Candelabra Trident 2 – detail) Abstract Advent 17, Finger painting and brush wash and tissue with Jackson’s ink, A4 media pad.
Tridentusi, Abstract Advent 17, Mabie Todd Swan vintage fountain pen and wash, A4 Sketchbook I usually wish to be somewhere warmer at this time of year. I write as I’m about to go for my Christmas Dinner, and so the combination of candlestick and cutlery in ‘The Meal’ seems very apt at this moment – the ritual of a meal on Xmas Eve or Day….and the desert cactuses of ‘Tridentusi’. Black Christmas, Abstract Advent 16, Faber Castell marker and Woody Pencils, A4 sketchbook.ĭay 17 was this square fork/trident shape, which made me think of candlesticks/menorah, a cactus and a few other shapes – I did four pieces but I think these two are the most successful. Lost in the Crowd, Abstract Advent 16, Markal Paintstik, A4 Daler Black Paper. Four thousand holes 2, Abstract Advent 15, Jackson’s Ink and brush with wax resist, A4 sketchbook.ĭay 16 was a sort of upside down lightbulb shape, which made me think of a Xmas bauble, a skull and a head – so I combined the first two in ‘Black Christmas’ (look at the reflection upside down, yes a very Goth Xmas) and ‘Lost in the Crowd’ felt like almost a self-portrait, a very personal piece using the Markal B Paintstiks on black paper and sgraffito. The perils of working in sketchbooks! Four thousand holes 1, Abstract Advent 15, Jackson’s Ink, A4 sketchbook. Sadly this got nuked by the next work leaking through the page, so this is the only copy, really. First up was Day 15, with a shape like a hole (rather than a head) which I did an ink painting and a wax resist painting on opposite pages as a two page piece. Final week (plus 2 days) of Abstract Advent challenge, which I completed on Christmas Eve – it’s been a blast, writing this on Christmas Day – hope you all are having a good one however your celebrate it (or not).
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