{"id":5444,"date":"2015-02-11T19:40:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T17:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistswindow.com\/new\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2020-02-20T21:39:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:39:15","slug":"a-love-of-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/a-love-of-line\/","title":{"rendered":"A love of Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Drawing the Line&#8217; was the title of my first solo exhibition last year. A celebration of my love affair with the drawn line, it included sketchbook scribbles, left-handed and blind-contour drawings, layered and collaged drawings, big, bold, blown up drawings on stretched canvas and delicate little drawings on lens tissue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image3.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5445\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Drawing, sketch\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have a goodly collection of sketchbooks filled with studies of everyday objects and local scenes &#8211; there&#8217;s nothing I like more than to capture an everyday moment in pen and ink, plus perhaps a little watercolour.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5449\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5449\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image4-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"Sketch, drawing, airplane\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sketching in the air<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the last couple of years I&#8217;ve been playing with various ways to combine my drawings with my collage and mixed media work and have dabbled in transfer print, working directly on lazer copied drawings, and using line work in mono printing and various forms of resist.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5451\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5451\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image5-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Painting, drawing, greens\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A blind contour drawing, worked into with acrylics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t say its a struggle, but it is certainly a preoccupation and an ongoing exploration for me, this business of marrying the line with the other stuff.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image7-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These fabulous acrylic paint marker pens are a new addition to my stash &#8211; the paint flows pretty well and they can be used on all sorts of surfaces. I&#8217;m particularly fond of the White one.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5461\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbygreece.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/image8-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Canvas, drawing, fishing boat, greece\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gone Fishing &#8211; collaged drawing on lens paper on mixed media canvas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Part two of this post will follow in a few days to show some different examples of the line exploration I&#8217;ve been doing&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Drawing the Line&#8217; was the title of my first solo exhibition last year. A celebration of my love affair with the drawn line, it included sketchbook scribbles, left-handed and blind-contour drawings, layered and collaged drawings, big, bold, blown up drawings on stretched canvas and delicate little drawings on lens tissue. 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