Monthly Archives: May 2014

Slightly All The Time

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Slightly All The Time - minimalist drawing by David Smith

Slightly All The Time
Drawing – ink on Somerset paper 381mm x 589mm

No. Really. It is there! You have to look very carefully and maybe click on it to enlarge, but it is there. You can perhaps see why I have been struggling to get good photographs of my work! This was today’s #arteachday posting on Twitter and I immediately had a reply from someone that they couldn’t see anything! Admittedly it is a bit minimalist but I can see it standard size on my PC. It is another of my  repetitive “field” drawings. For those of you who still can’t see it here is a detail:

Slightly All The Time Detail of ink drawing on Somerset paper 381mm x 589mm

Slightly All The Time
Detail of ink drawing on Somerset paper 381mm x 589mm

The Dream’s Malfunction

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The Dream's Malfunction - Abstract rawing by David Smith

The Dream’s Malfunction
Drawing – Ink on Somerset paper 381mm x 589mm

Today’s #arteachday post was this “field” drawing from a week or two ago that I have just today managed to get a fairly good photgraph of.

A Small Homage to Max Ernst

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A Small Homage to Max Ernst - Drawing by David Smith

A Small Homage to Max Ernst
Drawing – ink on Somerset paper 381mm x 589mm

I finally managed to get a half-decent photograph of this one that I did 10 or so days ago. I have been really stuggling to get things correctly reproduced but I am getting some that are good enough for now. My interest in Max Ernst has been renewed because of my collage work, but this recurring theme in his work of the moon or sun disk has been haunting me for a while.

Gate Gap Chase Bait

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Gate Gap Chase Bait - Drawing by David Smith

Gate Gap Chase Bait
Drawing – ink on paper 147mm x 210mm

Today’s piece to gather in the May-o is this little A5 drawing of ink on Somerset paper glued onto a stiffer watercolour paper. Goodness knows where the title came from. It originally had a quite different title but then I started to think about the word gap and its connection to gate and how gate is the Norwegian for road and that a gate was originally the gap, the gateway, rather than the thing that closes the gap and Maypoles and…

I changed the subject

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Abraded paintwork on dinghy hull

Dinghy hull

Last night’s tweeting about decaying walls and woodwork continued but this morning I changed the subject to marine craft under repair and maintenance and posted this photo I took at West Bay in January

Twitter group of decay lovers

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Decaying plywood structure - photograph by David Smith

Decaying plywood structure

There are a group of us on Twitter who love the semi-abstract patterns of decaying structures and the like. My contribution was this image of the rotting interior from our old solar wax extractor.

Another one from my messy side

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Wherever She Goes - collage by David Smith

Wherever She Goes
Paper, photographic elements and acrylic 215mm x 298mm

Today’s #arteachday posting was this collage that came about despite starting off with a completely different vision and this really only retains one or two elements from the original idea!