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April 13, 2005
a problem of scale
I can’t paint small. I can draw fairly small, but I like to draw big too.
This is difficult because the results are unfeasibly big, making framing, transport and exhibiting a nightmare.
Life-size is great, larger than life is fantastic. This is over eight feet tall [two thousand four hundred and forty of the new metric millimetres]
Working big is more like sculpture. I can lay on the charcoal then cut it back, then lay it on again; working the form with soft charcoal pastels, erasers and rags, as will as my hands and fingers. It’s a physical thing, an open, dynamic, process.
Working small is all tight and screwed up and pinched and anal. A whole different ball game.
Click here for an idea of the scale.
Posted by john at April 13, 2005 12:53 PM
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