“Sunlight at Wren’s Nest Pond” [31st January 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with H, HB, 4B and 8B pencils, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digital image 3480 x 2963 pixels.
With “Sunlight at Wren’s Nest Pond” I do believe this has the idea of music. Obviously there is an element of sound to seismic waves, featured in the artwork above.
Therefore, when I view this artwork it gives me the sense of sound.
Here is the photograph inspiration:
“Sunlight at Wren’s Nest Pond – photograph” [29th January 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
I try to bring the blue haze lightflare, mid-lower of the photograph, into this pencils artwork with a dash of blue colour pencil.
Perspective is magnified in an impressionistic manner. A bird’s nest is included into the sketch, to hint at Wren’s Nest Pond. The pond meanders into a stream at the feet of these trees you see here.
“Moonlight in Meadow Three“ [24th January 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with HB and 2B pencils, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digital image 3430 x 2925 pixels.
An atmospheric moonlight sketch from a photograph includes two curious faces in the sky. The moon itself is ‘compass drawn’ using a spherical temperature gauge. Seismic waves form the undergrowth amidst the trees.
Three rows of seismic ‘M’ grass also represent Earth’s climate, wildlife and habitat plight. The idea of flames is shown over the trees’ canopy. Branches wrap around the moon, as if the moon itself has its ‘head in its hands’, Edvard Munch style.
“Look! Thy moon gifts shining light throughout darkness of thine howling night.”
Here is the photograph inspiration:
“Moonlight in Meadow Three – photograph“
Next sketch is entitled “European Robin on a Wooden Post“, also sketched using a photograph from Meadow Three in my local Nature Reserve:
“European Robin on a Wooden Post“ [January 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with carbon and colour pencils, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digital image 3411 x 2941 pixels.
As I walked towards the metal gate at Wren’s Nest Pond, this European Robin was already perched five feet from me, comfortable with my approach.
dear Robin then skipped two feet to the left, onto the wooden post you see here in my sketch. It was there dear Robin stood whilst I happily took portrait photographs. A curious face is clearly visible between the wooden posts. Once again in this instance, the curious face was pure random chance.
Here is a quick photograph that provided the composition for my sketch:
“The Curious Face in the Pond“ [23rd Oct – 7th Nov 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with 3H HB 3B and green pencils in signed black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digital image 3475 x 2885 pixels.
For two weeks following the first draft of this sketch entitled “The Curious Face in the Pond”, the pond in the sketch became voidless.
Sketching, reworking, all to nothingness. Nations gathered to discuss the climate crisis. The face represents the realisation of Earth’s waters in Edvard Munch style.
Here is the inspiration for my artwork:
Inspiration for my sketch “The Curious Face in the Pond” – photograph by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
As you will see in the photograph there is much impressionism and a surrealist quality to my sketch. Some might regard this as ‘soul sketching’ or Surrealist-Impressionism. The ‘face’ in the pond is clearly an imaginary idea to explain the climate crisis in the context of a literal Nature Reserve.
The beautiful vegetation supporting the pond is somewhat aghast or perplexed at some of the strangely counter-productive large-scale industrial practices reaping havoc upon Earth’s climate. After posting this artwork on social media I wondered if I should create an artwork entitled ‘Rubbish Air and Rubbish Water on a Rubbish Manmade Planet Earth’.
I found this title satisfying, probably to lessen feelings we most all have watching Earth ‘mangle-mired’. That wrote, I actually thought, perhaps my sketch accomplishes that quite awful title.
Why? Well, I just couldn’t draw or sketch the pond. Technically, the pond water was greatly obscured for me to gain any reference to this in the sketch. Ultimately producing a strange, curious idea brought forward into my artwork.
“Proven ecological science must have the ability to directly quantify commercial policies.” – quotation by MΣ
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