Drawing Transformations - Part 2

I have spent some considerable time thinking over this last week what I could do to challenge myself for this project.

The task set for us is to develop a body of work that extends the use of drawing in our practice. We are free to use the suggested themes of looking, marking, imagining and thinking.  It has also been reinforced in our minds that this project is not just about using pencil and paper, the traditional means.  Far from it, contemporary "drawing" can include video, sound, paint sketches, photography, - pretty much any mark making or recording of a subject, object or thought.  One area that I think, which is of particularly relevant contemporary practive is the use of mobile smart phones.  I have one, wich is integrated with "Evernote", "Google Piccassa", and Blog-Spot, - each of these being repositories for making notes, capturing data / images or textual narratives.  we depend on these so much in this current culture.

I think what is of interest, is not necessarily the actual item being recorded, but the process of us choosing how items can be represented for later reflection.

I re-thought what our more traditional recording methods have been....

It was while I was sifting through some old photos that were given to me to consider as subjects for a pastel drawing, that I chose a picture of a beautiful sunrise, I'm not entirely sure where it was, I think it may have been taken it either in the Caribbean or in the US some time, but then again, it may have been in the Seychelles, as I remember fondly watching a similar spectacular sunrise there many years ago... Anyway, where ever it is, and whenever it was taken, doesn't really matter.  It just struck me as a beautiful typically aesthetically pleasing vista.  However, to subtly "con-temporise" it, I thought that by making the scene (which is relatively simple), as colourful as possible but without detracting from the essence of the original would be a nice starting point....

This was the result, done in soft chalk pastels, - a new medium that I have never used before, but I was pleased with the results;   The soft chalk was a lovely medium to capture the waves and lapping seawater.