Alive
I’m still alive, folks, and so is this project. After a long string of bad luck and bad news, however, I have to thank a lot of friends and my girlfriend for helping pull me out of depression and hibernation. Work will resume shortly.
花鳥風月 Kachou Fuugetsu 2/2 - Spencer Goldade
- Literally: Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon
- Meaning: Experience the beauties of nature, and in doing so learn about yourself.
花鳥風月 Kachou Fuugetsu 1/2 - variant 2 - Spencer Goldade
- Literally: Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon
- Meaning: Experience the beauties of nature, and in doing so learn about yourself.
花鳥風月 Kachou Fuugetsu 1/2 - variant 1 - Spencer Goldade
- Literally: Flower, Bird, Wind, Moon
- Meaning: Experience the beauties of nature, and in doing so learn about yourself.
Palette #3- This one I’ve been using in illustrations and sketchbook pieces for a long time now. It always varies a little bit, but it’s a good one to be able to rely on.
Palette 1- trying to settle on some color palettes, and what better way than with a few abstracts, right?
"I keep having to remind myself that my drawings don’t have to be perfect… they should only strive to be."
Spencer Goldade (via monkeyslunch)
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"The more confidence I put into every line, the better the drawing turns out. Don’t be finicky. Put it down. Mean it in every stroke."
Spencer Goldade (via monkeyslunch)
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“Justin Nozuka Live”
I’ve gotten questions about where some of these pieces come from, so I thought I’d do one and explain. Today I chose to base a piece off of Justin Nozuka’s new “Live In Philly” album that he released for free on his website today, and the feelings that I get from listening to it.
Most JN gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling, which is where I started with the fur. This whole album is sort of subdued, and definitely a different energy than some of his other live work, or recorded, so I decided to keep the whole piece subdued as well.
From there I picked out colors from my own palette that resonated. A nice cool blue for those smoother ooOooo’s Justin lets out, followed by a warmer red for the mmMmm’s. The black and grey dots to me represented the gravelly texture in his voice when he hit those high and low notes. Triangles can represent a lot of things, like the trinity, balance, power, and so on, and I filled a texture in there that made me think of the electronic feedback from a live show. Then I go through things and make sure there are no tangents and call the exercise done. These are meant to be quick exercises after all!
This one was fairly quick, but at least you can see now that there’s always a thought behind abstract art. At least mine, anyways. They always start somewhere.
Thanks to everyone following this project! It is still very much alive, but I’ve been put on a big freelance project that takes all of my free time… which should be done by next week, finally and thankfully! Back to my own creative endeavours, like the 365 Abstracts!
Did you guys know babies come out of there?!
I think I’ve always understood birth, but now that one of my best friends is about to have a child it makes me view naughty bits in a different light- at least for a moment.
-Spencer Goldade
