“Examples of map symbols used to show trees and forests on old Russian maps (1700s & 1800s) are documented in Izobrazhenie Lesa Na Kartakh by Liudmila Andreevna Shaposhnikova. The title is roughly translated to “How Forests are Depicted on Maps.” The book was published in Moskva, former USSR, in 1957.”
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“This is the most important painting to come out of Paul Klee‘s trip to Egypt, from mid-December, 1929, to early January, 1930. He visited Luxor, Karnak, Thebes, Aswan, and Cairo. The journey was nearly as great an experience as the earlier one to Tunisia. He must surely have had a fairly clear idea of what he was looking for. It is noteworthy that certain works done long before the journey exhibit similarities to the works inspired by Egypt.”
“The work was painted about six months after his journey. The pictorial ideas were left to mature until the meaning of the incomparable land could be communicated in a way hitherto unknown, until Ka, the land’s very source and substance, had entered into the picture. In this pattern of fields all is order, timeless structure, with a poetic element added – for what could be more poetic than an Egypt born again out of invented means, in twentieth-century creative language?”
I stumbled across this comic book story in an old copy of Heavy Metal magazine I picked up in a sceond hand book shopt in the early nineties. I had never seen anything like it. The mastery of the form, the colours the expressionistic artwork that so fit the purposes of the narrative so well. Here’s some of the early pages in the story that only hint at the glories to come.
Seems like I’m not the only one who has had such an experience with the work.
“You can see the careful consideration and planning that went into every line and color and choice of this intro. This functions like the Abstract of a scientific paper, the dumb show of early theater or the overture of an opera: here is the story in miniature, veiled in symbolism, wordless. All the themes are introduced, the tone is set, the aim established.”
First thing next morning looking over it, it didn’t turn out as I expected, I meant to do it all myself, but chores and parental stuff took over, and once the children had seen what i was doing they all wanted to do it themselves.
So the experience has been great for three reasons:
1). Introducing me to the idea of diary comicing again. something I’d like to keep trying, because I do believe it helps fluency.
2). My wife really got into drawing her bit, and was inspired to do the “butterfly parade” page at the end there. That made her very happy.
3). Introducing my children to the idea of drawing comics. They’ve seen me sitting about drawing in little books, but was great to invite them in and then see them taking part.
My Eldest was so inspired, she ended up continutng her own spin-off-cross-over piece I’ll attach below.
So we all had a full day and a great time doing the comic, hopefully I’ll be on board next year.
cheers then
PG
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You can see our comic here.
Very pleased to announce that the work I did at BDH on the viral for “Without You” has been featured on Cartoon Brew. They published my short description of the methods used to make it.
Some nice comments too.
Tomorrow is Hourly Comic Day, when artists the world over will make one comic per hour of wakefullness.
Water for Maya is a hand-painted work which came into being during a film interview with Martina Kudlacek about Maya Deren. There was a sudden recognition of Maya’s intrinsic love of water and thus of all Mayan liquidity in magic conjunction, reflection, etc.
see also: Comingled Containers and Mothlight
by Edouard Salier & Fred Pruchon /// Images Flip Book : Université Rennes 2 CREA-CIM & LENDROIT Galerie
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