ANYTHING BUT HUMAN: Julie Clarke pencils drawings

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Monday, February 4, 2019

Julie Clarke Drawings January 2019

So far this year I've been making drawings in an attempt to be non-representational. However, thinking about it something is always represented in mark making even if it is only color, style adopted, texture, etc. Here are some of the drawings, which are mostly acrylic paint and pencil on Fabriano paper. Of course, as usual, the colors are not accurate. I've begun another one 56 x 76 cm and will post when it is completed.

Monday, August 27, 2018

Continuing with facial reconfiguration and the war series of drawings


Blue park bench. Acrylic paint, pencil and ink on A3 w/c paper.	Julie Clarke (c) 2018

Saturday, August 11, 2018

The influenze of Fauvism.


Prismacolor pencil on 36 x 6 cm Moulin du Roy paper. Julie Clarke (c) 2018

I was looking at the Fauves and in particular Henri Matisse's portrait of his wife Amelie in his painting The Green Stripe. I must say I enjoyed moving from the rather muted colors I've been using of late to the bright colors of Fauvism.

Sunday, August 5, 2018

Two more pencil drawings by JULIE CLARKE


'Camouflage' Pencil on 36 x 56 cm Moulin du Roy, w/c paper.		Julie Clarke (c) 2018

Sunday, July 29, 2018

Trees are so bodily


Pencil on 56 x 76 cm Moulin du Roy on acid free watercolor paper.			Julie Clarke (c) 2018

Trees are aesthetically pleasing. Their limbs,which are so human at times. Their outstretched arms. Their strength and fragility. Recent high winds inspired me to consider the beautiful Plane Tree that towers above my place and is a source of fear (will any of its boughs break and fall on my roof?) as well as a source of pleasure since in spring and summer it sports thousands of leaves, which unfortunately fall and must be swept up nigh on five months per year. Last Saturday I walked through the highly constructed, but beautifully dense Botanical Gardens and later saw Storm (at Domain House), an exhibition that considered the affects of atmospheric nature on our existence. Early last week high winds damaged a crane in Richmond and was so dangerous that Bridge Road, Richmond was closed off to traffic from Church Street to Punt Road. It was the first time that I'd experienced the silence and emptiness of Bridge Road bereft of trams, car and at times pedestrians. I really enjoyed it.

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Listen to the machine

It was so inspirational this morning to see the international rescue of the twelve young boys of a Thai soccer team and their coach from deep within a cold, wet cave. This is the world that we should all aspire to, where individuals come together to work for the good of those who are vulnerable and in need of help. What a joyous day.

Last week I did the following drawing partly inspired by the hope engendered by this story and in response to my own anguish, which I managed to overcome.

Listen to the machine.

Pencil on Moulin du Roy (France) 56 x 76cm, 300 gsm paper.

Monday, June 25, 2018

Nameless face in a landscape

Pencil & watercolor on 56 x 76 cm Moulin du Roy paper.

I'm happy to report that 100 people have read my view on Mike Parr's performance (according to Google Analytics on my blog site.) It was good to see that he survived his burial and also good to see that his performance was featured several times on ABC TV. I would still like to know why some indigenous folk felt that they needed to be consulted by him prior to his performance. Sure, he read or at least had a copy of The Fatal Shore with him underground, but beyond that I don't really see the significance of his performance in relation to indigenous culture. Perhaps it was simply that vital parts of our history have been buried? Anyway, I finally began a new drawing pictured above and yes, it has quite a light, soft feel to the nameless, face in the landscape.

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Landscape reimagined

This is a pencil, acrylic paint and watercolor drawing on 56 x 76 cm, 300 gsm, Moulin du Roy (France), acid free, watercolor paper. I'm injecting neon (florescent color) into the landscape as a way of bridging city and country and making the idea magical in some way. It's also my attempt to address spring even though winter has just begin in Melbourne.

Saturday, June 2, 2018

Julie Clarke drawing this week: Neon

Flurescent pencil and acrylic paint on 56 x 76 cm, 300 gsm Moulin du Roy (French) Watercolor paper. Neon, is nature reimagined. I apologize for the quality of the digital photograph.

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Latest drawings

I've been so absorbed with drawing for about four hours per day as well as doing twice daily walks, seeing people and other domestic duties I've all but forgotten to post on the blog. Anyway, here are some of my latest drawings.

Pencil on 38 x 56cm, 185gsm Arches (France) paper.

Pencil on A3 sized paper.

Saturday, June 10, 2017

Brior Rose

I woke at 4.30 am this morning and when I looked at that knitting/rose stem sculpture I'd made I recalled the animated Disney film Sleeping Beauty (1959), which I saw when I was a child. The most dramatic image for me was the bramble and thorns that surrounded the castle where Brior Rose slept for one hundred years. There's something that still captures me about that imagery. The idea of waking up after being so long asleep and contained is fascinating, perhaps akin to the modern day procedure of cryonics - the science of using freezing or very low temperatures to preserve the bodies of dead individuals with the intent that sometime in the future they may be resurrected and restored to good health by using nanotechnolgies or other unimagined biotechnological advancement. No mention of course of the psychological impact of waking and knowing that everyone you have known or loved are dead and the world a different place than you had previously known. So, I did a small drawing based on the sculpture. I understand this drawing to be part of the overall project: Old knitter of black wool, since it deals in part with the knotting of the bramble and the deterrent qualities of the rose thorns.

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Ear shaped handle, or, more drawings of a gravy boat

On Friday I went to the Kino Cinema in Melbourne to see Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2015) which was an absolutely amazing film. Juliet Binoche brilliant as usual, however Kristen Stewart (Bella in the Twilight Series) was equally astounding. If you haven't seen it, the film is intelligent, intense and compelling and the mountains and clouds in Switzerland so seductive as is the plot, which touches ever so gently on un-recognised lesbian desire, ego, time and aging. Reality and fantasy slip so easily into each others space through the mirroring of art and life and as always death never far away.

Yesterday, since it was such a sunny day, I went into NGV International to see the Pre-Raphaelite exhibition and also saw the English Embroidery exhibition, both beautifully decorative. On my way home I dropped into the Red Cross opportunity shop in Bridge Road, Richmond and purchased the only other Vintage silver plated Gravy Boat they had. This one has an ear-shaped handle and is larger than the other one I've been drawing. It may be that it was made by Wallace silversmith's, most probably made in the 1940s. Here's the drawing I did of it late yesterday afternoon. I've used watercolor and waterproof ink pen on A4 Fabriano watercolor paper.

Here's the one I've just completed on Sunday morning using color pencils and fine liner pen.

And one that I did late afternoon, early evening today (Sunday). Apologies for the dark flash marks shown on these drawings and the fact that the background looks grey when the drawings have been done on white paper.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

Drawings of a Gravy Boat

Six small (on A4, Arches 100% cotton rag, or Fabriano watercolor paper) pencil, watercolor and ink drawings I did of a Vintage Silver plated Gravy Boat I found in an op shop on Thursday. Some of them look like birds to me, others, something else.

Friday, April 10, 2015

Graphite and pastel drawings of a 1940s suitcase

A couple of weeks before Easter I did these drawings of a 1940s cardboard suitcase. Half of the drawings are in pastel, the other half with graphite. All are on A1 size, Arches (France) 100% cotton rag.

Monday, August 11, 2014

Talking into the void

This drawing was inspired by a man I often see who is talking to himself, or rather, appears to be talking into the void. I executed it this afternoon using Faber & Castell oil pastels on A3, 200gsm paper.

Friday, January 17, 2014

Drawing...

Drawing done over the past couple of days. I've called it Woman of the sea encounters the wooden horse. Prismacolor and Faber Castell Aquarelle color pencils on A3, 185gsm Arches Watercolor paper.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Heat and yesterdays drawing

Apart from sweeping up the fallen leaves in my courtyard, watering the plants & doing a little shopping in the morning this is what I did for the remainder of yesterdays very hot weather (top of 43C degrees). I loathe being trapped inside, but can't tolerate the heat. I think the frenetic strokes I've used in this drawing depicts my frustration. It is intended to be a self-portrait with fish and fire, drawn with both Derwent and Prismacolor pencils on A3 sized Arches Watercolor paper.

Sunday, January 5, 2014

Prismacolor drawing today...

Drawing I began yesterday and finished this morning. Prismacolor on A3, 185gsm Arches Watercolor paper. Partly inspired by going to the beach and a little wooden horse with wheels that I own and love.