Taking An Art Class At Age 81 3/4 ...

[Dickkooty2]

... having fun. Messing around at the Hood River Library's old and new sections. Pen and ink and markers.

 

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj157/dick168/Tryp%2012%20%205-16_zpsofq8vxnj.png

[markiv]

Awesome!

[sciumbasci]

Impressive

[Cryptos]

Well, I can only say that it must have been a mighty big bushel to have been able to hide that lamp!

[therecorder]

You're an inspiration to this "young" sixty-eight year old guy... It's never too late... Thank you very much.

[fountainpagan]

Your drawings are great!!!

 

never too late to start, but I am sorry you didn't before

[Sagarb]

Really very nice..

[christof]

Great sketches Dick!

 

...your drawings reminds me on two legends of post modern design and architecure:

 

http://www.designboom.com/tools/WPro/images/12d/sott2.jpg

Ettore Sottsass and the great:

 

 

...Aldo Rossi! I love them both.

 

And my favourite Swiss Architect, Peter Märkli:

 

http://66.media.tumblr.com/b7e3edd87bb57d9dbe6c265368b92c24/tumblr_mknax9DLFn1s79vn1o5_500.jpg

 

C.

Edited May 17, 2016 by christof

[PAKMAN]

Very nice and very inspiring!

[inkstainedruth]

Very nice work! Keep it up.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Rita_K]

Good for you !

Your drawings are great. I'm really impressed. Please show us more.

[Lamyrada]

I used to think my creative side was dead at 68, not anymore! thanks for the inspiration! Great drawings!

[Dickkooty2]

Thank you, dear FPN Support Group! After 60 years of active involvement with design, advertising, and art history, it is probably about time I tried to do something myself.

 

Alas, at my age i must think of time. I know that water color is a wonderful medium for expression but it takes years to be adequate. I have jotted down little drawings of their houses for my kids, and some of the places i have been just for me in addition to photographs.

 

But I know I don't know anything about doing. I am only one question deep on techniques. I feel that I must have a better understanding based on picking up a brush, a pen, a marker, and facing a blank sheet. And so I meet with my teacher once a week for lessons in the basics of line, color, and space,

 

But what do I have to say? And how can I say it with a limited palette of skills.

 

I'm trying to find out.

 

In my mind, if not my hand:

 

• Kieth Haring for strength of simple line to make such powerful statements.

 

• Rennie Macintosh's architectural drawings for the same power of simple line to create space and volume.

 

• David Hockney for being my age and opening up powerful new ways of representation with the newest of media. His drawing and composition involves not simply space but the passing of time itself.

 

and two masters of simplicity who can with the simplest forms create the tensions of shape and volumes in space, regardless of the import of the subject matter ...

 

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj157/dick168/Screen%20Shot%202016-05-17%20at%2011.49.01%20AM_zpsobathytc.png

 

Wayne Thiebaud and Giorgio Morandi.

 

Please, I am not saying that my "work" (use of "air quotes" would be the way to say my "work") in any way can reflect the consumate skills of these artists. I am saying these are people who have shaped how I think about line and color and space.

 

We shall see ...

[Dickkooty2]

Some stuff just with a pen, a couple of markers and a small notebook. I like the idea of being light-weight (personally, I tend more to the heavy-weight ... "and in this cohnah, wearing poiple trunks, always a populah contendah ..." )*

 

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj157/dick168/Screen%20Shot%202016-06-02%20at%207.29.53%20PM_zps4wc1zltq.png

 

* Who among us, other than me, can remember Friday Night Fights on Mutual Radio, sponsored by Gillete Blue Blades? I didn't think so ...

[bobje]

Dick,

These really evoke the buildings and spaces and I enjoy your use of captions and the rust color. Nice work.

[snowbear]

Great work. Well done.

Edited June 3, 2016 by snowbear

[FOUR X FOUR]

... having fun. Messing around at the Hood River Library's old and new sections. Pen and ink and markers.

 

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj157/dick168/Tryp%2012%20%205-16_zpsofq8vxnj.png

Dick, you don't write a day over 40

[darazs]

I like it very much. It's dynamic and beautifully colorful

[fountainpagan]

Some stuff just with a pen, a couple of markers and a small notebook. I like the idea of being light-weight (personally, I tend more to the heavy-weight ... "and in this cohnah, wearing poiple trunks, always a populah contendah ..." )*

 

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj157/dick168/Screen%20Shot%202016-06-02%20at%207.29.53%20PM_zps4wc1zltq.png

 

* Who among us, other than me, can remember Friday Night Fights on Mutual Radio, sponsored by Gillete Blue Blades? I didn't think so ...

 

These are great!!!

 

I very much like that vivid atmosphere you achieve to give to your drawings.

 

Thank you for sharing.

[Dickkooty2]

Thank you again, FPN Support Group! I am off to my 60th reunion at Williams College in Massachusetts with a pack of postcard-size papers and two Preppys - one with black, one with brown. I'll take along some colors that will not dominate any scrawl i make. The campus will be busy. Some drinking and singing may occur.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C799LMTVYQ4

 

The details are there. The Class of 1956 was 250 young men, the school total was 1000 young men. The modern buildings did not exist. Coat and tie for dinner. Required Chapel. The Greek entrance requirement had been dropped just before WWII. It was a different world. School now 2000, co-ed, very varied backgrounds. Much more active.

 

I am growing maudlin ... I do hope to capture some sense of nostalgia in detail.