Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Drawing with Edna

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal, black pastel on toned Strathmore rag 2 ply Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), charcoal, black pastel on toned Strathmore rag 2 ply Bristol

Edna and I got together last Friday afternoon, October 26, to draw some more. Cathy, my wife, particularly liked the top drawing. We’re still working on the toned ground. Edna and I only worked in the afternoon last Friday. I had spent the morning drawing from the model. Interestingly enough, I found that the two and half hours I drew from the model in no way helped me or “warmed me up” for the afternoon. This is the first time we did not spend the morning playing around with drawing. I understand now that this is the time we work out the images that appear in the afternoon. Each of us has a dozen or so old “morning” drawings tacked to our studio walls, but these drawings are “cold.” In the morning following our usual routine, we may take some of the “cold” images and “warm” them up or work up some new imagery for the afternoon, when we work to get the finished drawings. Those warmed up images were missing Friday afternoon. That made the drawing more difficult.
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Friday, October 19, 2007

Tall Chest of Drawers Update

Seven Drawer Chest, 57″ x 27″ x 18″ (145cm x 69cm x 46cm), maple, poplar

I finished the side panels this morning. Here they are in a dry (glueless) assembly. Everything is fitting together very well.

An artless week. No new drawings this week. Edna has a cold today. No working from the model tomorrow. Randy Cooper’s [http://www.randycooperart.com/] studio couldn’t find a model to schedule.


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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Tall Chest of Drawers Update

Seven Drawer Chest, 57″ x 27″ x 189″ (145cm x 69cm x 46cm), maple

I have finished the basic structure for the chest.  Here I have put it together “dry,” not glued yet. There are 20 mortise and tenon joints. I have already grooved the sides to receive the four panels, two on each side. Next I will add the grooves to the styles to receive the web frames and rabit the back to receive the plywood back.

In this month’s, November 2007, Elledecor on page 132, there is a brief article on the semainier, the tall narrow seven drawer chest, with photos of ten examples in various styles. I have also found an example of a Frank Llyod Wright designed semainier. Semainier comes from the French word for week, semaine. This type of chest first appeared in 18th century France for storing the week’s linens. At any rate, calling a piece of furniture a semainier is so much more elegant than calling it a seven drawer chest. Thank you France.

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Sunday, October 14, 2007

Drawing with Edna

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), pigment, charcoal, black pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), pigment, charcoal, black pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol

Untitled Drawing, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), pigment, charcoal, black pastel on Strathmore 2 ply rag Bristol

Last Thursday, October 11, Edna Casman and I got together for another day of drawing at her studio. We continue to work on toned paper.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Website Updated

 
 
  
Tulip Variation #11, 40″ x 30″ (102cm x 76cm), acrylic on polyester canvas
 
 
I have, just moments ago, updated my website. After hours of teeth clenching, guttural groaning, hair rending, fist making and ordering the instant condemnation to computer hell of the folks who wrote the “easy” program and its microscopic User’s Guide (No, that’s not my mistake. Whoever or whatever wrote the Guide expected only one User and not more. Maybe I was it. By the way, I predict that, as the slacker aged geeks who wrote the Guide and published it eye squinting 5 pt Times Roman attain their late 40’s, we will all be treated to guides published in larger typefaces.) I am relieved to be finished.

Chiefly I added two sections - one of images from the New Mexico Rail Runner project and another of some whirligigs. I also changed a few of the images in the other galleries.

If you look at the website, and it doesn’t come up right, please let me know.

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Sunday, October 7, 2007

Drawing with Edna

 
 
 
Untitled, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), pigment, charcoal, black pastel on Strathmore 2 ply Bristol
 
 
 
 
Untitled, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), pigment, charcoal, black pastel on Strathmore 2 ply Bristol
 
 
 
 
Untitled, 29″ x 23″ (74cm x 58cm), pigment, charcoal, black pastel on Strathmore 2 ply Bristol
 
 
 
Edna and I got together last Monday, October 1, for another day of drawing, this time at her studio. We continued with the toned ground paper we used last time.
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Exhibiting Three Desert Landscapes at Art is OK Gallery

 
Chuck Dunbar
will exhibit
three
Big New Mexico Inspired Landscapes
(broiling sun, hot rocks, prickly pear)
at
Art Is … OK & Company Gallery & Sculpture Garden
3301 Menaul NE #28
Albuquerque, NM 87107
505-883-7368
Opening Friday October 5, 2007, 6-9 PM
Show runs to December 31, 2007
 
 
 
Cultivating Flowers in the Desert, 60″ x 40″ (152cm x102cm), acrylic on polyester canvas
 
 
 
 
Desert Rocks Roast in the Sun, 60″ x 40″ (152cm x102cm), acrylic on polyester canvas
 
 
 
 
Prickly Pears Pose Shadows to the Desert, 60″ x 40″ (152cm x102cm), acrylic on polyester canvas

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