I Like the images that you find in the Farmers Almanac. They remind me of a time when artists, doctors and scientists collaborated. Like in "The Gross Clinic" there was a time before Aseptic procedures and knowledge of the human body was refined. Often an artist was present when early doctors disected their stolen bodies to document visually the inner workings of the human body. Before that even, many scientists believed the body to be effected by many outside sources such as the heavens. Still today many will attest that durring a full moon people are chaotic and wreckless... babies are born... accidents happen. About the same time scientists and adventurers like Lewis and Clark were exploring and documenting new plants, animals and peoples and whos job do you think it was to visually document all that? I honestly believe if I had lived durring those times I would have given everything I had to be one of the artists with Lewis and Clark... this is just a sketch that reminds me of a wildly scientific time that required artists.
Interesting...I guess this was before cameras were invented. I don't think I'd want to live back then, just because medicine wasn't nearly as advanced as it is now. I don't think I relish the thought of dying of the flu.
ReplyDeleteHAHA, Im pretty sure cameras were around... I think the power of them wasnt fully understood tho? As for dying of the Flu, that would suck but I am a firm believer in the importance of Darwinism... so if my genes were weak, no use giving them to the most important people in my life haha. You know in the whole Lewis and Clark expedition only one man died? That is really something since they faced ALOT of dangers. Can you imagine eating your belt leather? These guys were used to eating Beef everyday and had to eat everything from dogs to horses and when they made their way back home the first cows they saw symbolized being home again... When they started their journey they didnt know if theyd discover giant monsters or what... That sacrifice and sense of adventure is hard to come by these days... thats what inspires me about those times.
ReplyDeleteGood sketchbook page. Is the book brown paper?
ReplyDeletenope, I just have an ordinary white sketch book... I was just expirementing with the accident from sketch 1... I was trying to make it look old and worn.
ReplyDeleteDo you think the color adds to the picture or does it just look weird? I thought Id play with it a bit and see what I could do.
ReplyDeleteOh no the color is good, if you are really into it you may want to use a warm and cool background, like a cool gray plus a warm brown. Take a look at my moth page on my blog, you'll see that the background goes from orange yellow to reddish then purplish to ultramarine (a warm blue) to iron blue a cool blue. That is the beauty of watercolor.
ReplyDeleteWhat did you do the brown with?
photoshop haha... still photoshopin' my sketches up. I think its kind of cool to see what effects you can do... I think this next week I will try doing away with the color and make the page appear wrinkled or torn, I dont know maybe.
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