Showing posts with label 18th Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 18th Street. Show all posts

Friday, June 16, 2006

18th Street looking west



OK, here's the last Pilsen drawing that I'm going to post. When I first started to use a technical pen I
got a thrill out of creating intricate details and then completely covering them with cross-hatching. Somehow the eye perceives the detail even with the most minimal information.

A painter I admire used to talk about all of the meaning he would hide in the dark areas of his paintings. I don't think anyone knows exactly what he was hiding, but somehow you can feel it there.

When a drawing is reduced digitally you have a near total loss of detail. But if the image is a good one compositionally it may seem like something more is there. Keep in mind it may simply be a good reduction of a mediocre image.