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Aleph’s Flux

Aleph's Flux - Ink drawing on paper by David Smith

Aleph’s Flux
Drawing – ink on Somerset paper 559mm × 762mm

Today’s #arteachday post on Twitter was this large “field” drawing. Ask me about the title if you visit me during Dorset Art Weeks!

Tideline Too

Tideline Too: Drawing by David Smith - Ink & watercolour on paper

Tideline Too
Ink & watercolour on paper 559mm × 762mm

Yesterday’ #arteachday post was this drawing from last year.

Slightly All The Time

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

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

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

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…

A struggling day today!

Bothered - collage by David Smith

Bothered
Photographic elements and ink on Khadi paper 154mm x 215mm

Collage from David Smith's sketchbook

Collage experiment from my sketchbook
Photographic elements and ink on paper 170mm x 130mm approx

Things don’t always go smoothly and as I have been on a roll recently it’s only to be expected that I’m due a challenging day. I recorded on the #Letter365 post how my first attempt for today’s piece had not a single redeeming feature! And later how my other work tumbled after it while the new #Letter365 came out OK.

Well this piece above evolved before all that, before the day went downhill a bit. I didn’t realise that its title and my state of being coincided until someone pointed it out! The piece right is a little experiment in the same vein in one of my sketchbooks.

Today the dots have it

Deatail of "Keep the Car Running" an ink drawing by David Smith

Keep the Car Running (detail) Ink on Somerset paper 381mm x 559mm

If you have followed my #Collage365 project or seen any of my “Personal Reflections” photos, you will have seen that I have a bit of a thing about dots and circles. Well today they turned up in one of my abstract drawings.

I will aim to get some of my photos up on this site soon but here is one to give you the idea:

Self portrait of reflection in the windows of Birmingham's new library

Pesrsonal Reflection on Birmingham’s new library