Original artwork description:
An Albuquerque Public School System image archive collected from the 1950’s-60’s was donated to me. I was most interested in the vintage folders themselves. I tore each one in half at the fold to draw on. As part of my art practice I go to weekly figure drawing groups. In figure drawing, I am fast, furious and heavy handed as I carve my line out of space. Each week I draw, go back to the studio, paint over, collage over and write over the parts that don’t seem to be working. I go back to figure drawing and redraw, then cut, paste, paint, and draw and draw and draw until I get something that speaks to me. I never throw anything out. I work and rework until I discover a story evolving. In this piece you can see the layering of the figures combined with collaged graph paper, hand lettering, and stenciling. The folder figures are a limited-edition series of drawings; I only have a certain amount of them and when they are done, that’s it.
Materials used:
acrylic, paint, collage, stencils, china marker, pen, pencil, marker, gel medium, glue,
Tags:
#vintage folder #nude #mixed media #collage #female nude #female figure #figures #drawing on paper #figure drawing #collage mixed media #contemporary figurative #manila folderFeatured by our Editors:
Monuments 101 (2018)
Drawing
by Juliana Coles
£365.02
- Drawing on Paper
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 22.23 x 37.47 x 0.03cm (unframed) / 22.23 x 37.47cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: Nudes and erotic
Original artwork description
An Albuquerque Public School System image archive collected from the 1950’s-60’s was donated to me. I was most interested in the vintage folders themselves. I tore each one in half at the fold to draw on. As part of my art practice I go to weekly figure drawing groups. In figure drawing, I am fast, furious and heavy handed as I carve my line out of space. Each week I draw, go back to the studio, paint over, collage over and write over the parts that don’t seem to be working. I go back to figure drawing and redraw, then cut, paste, paint, and draw and draw and draw until I get something that speaks to me. I never throw anything out. I work and rework until I discover a story evolving. In this piece you can see the layering of the figures combined with collaged graph paper, hand lettering, and stenciling. The folder figures are a limited-edition series of drawings; I only have a certain amount of them and when they are done, that’s it.
Materials used:
acrylic, paint, collage, stencils, china marker, pen, pencil, marker, gel medium, glue,
Tags:
#vintage folder #nude #mixed media #collage #female nude #female figure #figures #drawing on paper #figure drawing #collage mixed media #contemporary figurative #manila folderFeatured by our Editors:
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This artwork is sold by Juliana Coles from United States
