Each person in the group starts a sketchbook off by doing a double page entry. They then pass the sketchbook to someone else in the group. Each subsequent person does a double page spread and, here is the crucial bit, using as their inspiration something, anything, from the previous person's work. Anything. The subject, a colour, a shape, an association, anything.
How does the first person start? Everyone picked an image that they liked from a pile of magazines.
Here is what I chose:
I let this roll around in my mind for a couple of days. I was thinking 'what do eyes see? what do eyes say?' and 'thick kohl' and 'scary eyes'.
Other eyes that came to mind were these:
My first exploration in my back-up sketchbook took the first two pictures, with the image of the burqa-ed woman a very powerful one for me. I carved some adigraf and used it to print with acrylics.
But the image I liked took the red of the Steve McCurry image (Procion MX dyed paper) as well as the burqa-ed eyes. This became my first image to pass on and the one closest to the original.
But I also wanted to give the Clockwork Orange eye a go too, entirely subverting its original, terrifying meaning. Again, adigraf helped and I carved out a stamp of both a positive and negative of the eye motif.
First I had a play in my back-up sketchbook, but it was all floating around a bit too much.
Then, in the sketchbook to be passed on I did this, which seems to work better.
So what I pass on to the next person will be
This spread first indicates what influenced me from the image that I began with. Then it moves gradually further from that image into my own space. Ooh, I had such a nice time.
And never one to miss an opportunity with some unused paint and a couple of new stamps, I banged out some tags.
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