Blue sketchbook sheet 43
Datum
Richscribble
Blatt 43 aus dem blauen Skizzenbuch, Richscribble-Aquarell, Zülpich 2023
A special brush technique and color drying on the approximately 70g/m² paper of the blue sketchbook produced a whole series of interesting artifacts. The first one captivated me because of its lines and the expression of lightness, heaviness, and penetration.
Two flat shapes intrude into the foreground, as if they had fallen from above onto a loose surface, creating space for themselves. The colors are reduced to a few tones in varying degrees of brightness. You can purchase this artifact as an excellent print in my new shop malamadita.de.
Recently, I have been studying the artifacts found in the blue sketchbook and interpreting some of them in watercolors, as is the case with this sheet.
I kept the lines that make up the image, but changed the colors a bit. The biggest difference, though, is probably the texture, which I didn’t want to just copy. This makes the image “feel” different, I’d say softer than the original.
It is striking that the luminance in the template emphasizes the hard outlines, thereby giving the drawing a dominant role, which suits a formal or pictorial language. The interpretation “tells” of bodies and volume boundaries.
I think I chose this artifact because its formal language is similar to that of other works of mine, such as Lightpainting ‘preserve’
I acquired my sensitivity for such formal language images from Penck, of all people, from his wonderful series, which he called “Standards,” simple and ingenious. Of course, what I am doing here is something completely different. His work focused my still very young gaze on a simple visual language at a time when, as a young person, one tends to be captivated by the spectacular. At 18, I was no different from most others, and yet I noticed that moments of quiet contemplation of simplicity were also very precious to me.
I have explored several other artifacts and offer them as prints in DIN A3/A2/A1 sizes on my “shop malamadita.de”:https://malamadita.de/en.
The low price, including taxes/customs duties and shipping costs, is due to the fact that these sheets have not been signed by me and are sent directly to you from the printer.
