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Drawing based on field recordings

Gather field sound material and then use it as a basis for drawings.Pick some different types of fields, as: - Repetitive background noise, like a train passing by - Sporadic clustered noise, such as people walking across schoolyard / park with dogs - Sounds of tv program/ talk show in unknown language - Various types of silence: with different emortional charge (awkward silence, silence before the storm, concentrated silence between two loud noises, eternal silence of outer space, etc.) - Sounds from the inside spaces: big/small rooms, bars, cafes, library, in public transport, inside own home, train station, church, theater, hairdresser, hospital, lavatory, bathroom - Sounds of nature vs man-made: wind, car sounds, church bells, bird songs, dog bark, rain, thunder - Sounds based on objects found in the field: knock on wood, rotating / breaking the glass, pouring/ boiling the water, clicking on switches, echo of different places, hand dryer, crumpling plastic bag.

 

tags: drawing, field
categories: reference
Monday 08.11.14
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Fear me, goats!

Славный Август из города Рима Был богами поддержан незримо. И тогда по рогам Надавал всем врагам Тот неистовый Август из Рима.

Воистину, завоевательная политика императора Октавиана Августа была впечатляющей.
А. Дубровский, 2011

Glorious August from the city of Rome Was supported by the invisible gods. And then by the horns Slapped he all his enemies That frenetic August of Rome (truly, aggressive policy of the emperor Octavian Augustus was impressive). (makeshift translation of A. Dubrovski's poem).

tags: August, brush, cartoon, cloud, drawing, Dubrovsky, field, flash, goat, god, gouache, history, illustration, indian ink, nonsense, poetry, rome, thunder
categories: research notes
Saturday 05.28.11
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My turbo aunt

There was a Young Girl of Majorca, Whose aunt was a very fast walker; She walked seventy miles, And leaped fifteen stiles, Which astonished that Girl of Majorca.

E.Lear, 1846

tags: aunt, cartoon, drawing, fence, field, illustration, jump, lear, limerick, majorca, nonsense, pasture, pen and ink, poetry, sheep, stile, young lady
categories: research notes
Wednesday 03.09.11
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IF - swarm

tags: bear, bee, beehive, bees, birch tree, bite, cartoon, drawing, field, forest, gouache, illustration, insects, pen and ink, sting, swarm, trees
categories: research notes
Tuesday 03.01.11
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Comments: 7
 

World cup pub

tags: drawing, england, field, flag, park, pen, pen and ink, pub, summer, trees, urban, urban sketchers, watercolor, world cup
categories: photos
Friday 07.16.10
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