Blue sketchbook sheet 4
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Richscribble
Sheet 4 is a storytelling sheet. I can’t decide which one I would prefer.
Blatt 4 aus dem blauen Skizzenbuch, Richscribble-Aquarell, Zülpich 2023
I darkened most of the background, making the figures lighter, and then added more color to them digitally.
If you can now detach yourself from the original Rickscribble and its color field summaries, a scene emerges as described in the Bible. I have included the passage from the Elberfelder Bible for you. If you are unable to do so, you will continue to see the animal, only in more vivid colors.
Moses 2:2 Elberfelder Bible
5 Then Pharaoh’s daughter came down to the river to bathe. Her servants were walking along the riverbank. Pharaoh’s daughter saw the basket among the reeds and ordered one of her servants to fetch it for her.
I enlarged four very interesting areas, which I developed into print designs. These are sections from the darker template with greater contrast. I like the colors so much that I plan to recreate them as watercolors.
You will soon be able to purchase these artifact excerpts as high-quality prints in my “new shop malamadita.de”:https://malamadita.de.
These pages from the blue sketchbook have no signature or other text on the front. I also only sign the accompanying watercolors on the back so that the picture can be hung in either landscape or portrait format.
A good picture can always be hung in any orientation.
Doesn’t sheet 4.1 have something mercurial about it? The colors and shapes won me over right away. It doesn’t invite you to search for meaning; it simply presents itself in its mysterious existence. Something reflective and fluid in iridescent shades of blue, somehow guided and framed, on an earthy background. Not a colorful ensemble, yet strong in color, thoroughly conjugated in its shades, realistically unrealistic—just my cup of tea. I perceive something material, no tangible objectivity, no associations with anything, where one cannot be sure where it might come from.
Of course, I also play with my ability to make associations, and often enough, if I can spark enough self-reflective mental hygiene, I recognize the origin of my association—which often enough is not really mine, but has been implanted. What do we have on this sheet? The bodies of servants can still be associated in a more abstract form—but how boring. Here we see colored amplitudes, sine curves, clothed in fibrous structures and intertwining colors, illuminated by light reflections—beautiful, the colors are brilliant.
What kind of construction is this? 3D structures with fleeting drawing fields, delicately rendered, open white allowed, something red flowing past in the foreground. It must be a landscape, but what really raised questions for me were the three delicate ultramarine blue brushstrokes, so inconspicuous and yet so meaningful.
The last image is arranged around a dark spot.
Could this be a rare close-up of a discarded vanishing point? In this image, too, it is the “solvent” colors that appear so unrealistically realistic in their weathering. The light green gives the upper part of the image the necessary liveliness to interact with the red tones in the lower part of the image, unspectacular and worth seeing.
