shy anglepoise

shy anglepoise, originally uploaded by Donna Nicholson-Arnott.

My submission to the somewhat abortive June Challenge for Team We Draw on etsy.com. Hey ho.

Theme was gestus. I didn't want to use people, I draw people all the time.

Not a great drawing, and obviously inspired by the anlgepoise animation.

Lurid Reclining Man

Lurid Reclining Man, originally uploaded by Donna Nicholson-Arnott.

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I'm working on a kind of fiddly precise commission at the moment (I'll share it with you when it's done), and it was nice to throw some ink around on tuesday. Scratchy with the white and orange pencils too. :)

yellow hair

yellow hair, originally uploaded by Donna Nicholson-Arnott.

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Toying with a watermark for the shop. Don't really like it.

It's funny, I find myself aiming for something different from before when drawing. I need to think about what I'm doing.

Gertie Schiele's hands.

Gertie Schiele's hands., originally uploaded by Donna Nicholson-Arnott.

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Egon Schiele is my hero.
There was an exhibition of drawings from private collections in the Richard Nagy Gallery in London between the 19th May and 30th June, I took the opportunity to pop along and see them in the real - oh heavens, standing in a roomful of Schiele drawings, swoon*

I love the drawing of Gertie Schiele in the big hat with her top folded down. Yes she has a great look in her eye, yes her breasts are bared, yes it's a superb contorted pose; but I think it's really a drawing about her hands.

The first 'we draw' team treasury!

Made by 'we draw' member Coramantic.
My little non-dancing bear is in there too, thanks Yvonne!

Just found a treasury widget on CraftCult...

A Line is a Line...

I popped down to Middlesbrough to catch the tail end of the Drawing in Progress exhibition at the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. The exhibition displayed MIMA's recent acquisitions of American post-war drawings. G's and my favourite was Fred Sandback's Untitled from c.1987, in which we pondered whether the black and yellow described the edges of the gap between the vellum sheets; or were the lines themselves the gap, separating the vellum sheets.

I also enjoyed drawing the front of the MIMA building, and particularly Lawrence Weiner's A Line is a Line for All That. Struck me a sentence about line would look nice in continuous line writing. But I would say that, wouldn't I.

I made MIMA a gift of one of my wandering lines on one of their comment cards, above. :)