The 2nd Annual Jonny Z Festival + Bizarre Market is this Sat., August 8th.
12pm-5pm
200 Block of Shields Ave.
(Between Grove & Hanover)
I'm planning to attend/vend and will have some repeat odds and ends, including Cats in Space, Seed Packet Notebooks and other stuff, pretty much just like last year.
Art 180's current events page has more details.
In other project news, I recently made a sculpy figurine of an angel donkey for a friend at work whose friend's donkey had passed away.
Unpainted it was weird and fleshy:
Then painted, it was cuter:
I had to use a photograph (generic internet donkey) as a reference. It got me thinking about needing "references" in that way. Not that I'm great at drawing cats, but somehow cats have become semi-embedded in my consciousness, anatomy-wise, and I don't HAVE to have a reference to avoid absolutely ridiculous results. Whereas, even though in my mind, I totally know what a horse or a mouse looks like, if I try to draw one without a visual reference, it will just be goofy as all get out.
It would be fun, maybe, to draw a series of things using references vs. not using references, and see how off I am. I actually sort of like the silly result vs. the serious, but I know it's laughable.
I'm wondering what affects the mind to the point that something is memorized visually and you know what it looks like, yet can't get it out of your head and onto paper properly. And what switches that to something which can be translated outwardly... just practice, or time, or staring a lot at things?
Maybe I should have been a kid who traced things more. I never really traced anything.
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I also need a visual reference to draw. I think that's why my trees always look vaguely Seussian.
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