King James Oak – Autumn Landscape

King James VI I Oak of 1612 - Autumn Landscape — “King James VI & I Oak of 1612 – Autumn Landscape” [27^th June 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with H, HB, 4B, 8B and charcoal (h) (m) pencils, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 3395 x 2874 pixels.

I took three photographs on 15^th November 2021. Two photos of the King James VI & I Oak, and one overhead shot of a beautiful wild mushroom growing in the meadow amongst the green grass.

At 1247hrs of that day the photographic composition for the original sketch you see immediately above was produced. This is my favourite of the two Oak photographs for that Autumn day.

“The Oaken King, verily standing, arrayed in Autumnal finery, imposing amidst the treeline, magnificent, powerfully watchful.”

The “King James VI & I Oak of 1612 – Autumn Landscape” took me within forty-seven minutes from start to finish.

Here is the original photographic composition inspiration for my sketch:

Upon completing my sketchy style drawing, I was quite surprised at how the minutes had speedily flown by. I used a stopwatch to note the time elapsed for this artworking. 47th minute for the photograph, 47 minutes to finish the sketch.

Quaint, for an Oak tree that has lived since 1612.

Leafy Hollow

As I walked the steps at the entrance to the rope plateau, as I shall call this, I took a photograph pointing downwards. This revealed the micro-vista you see here in my sketch above.

“Leafy Hollow” took me within thirty-five minutes from start to finish.

The photograph itself was taken on 12^th May of this year 2022, specifically for the purpose of creating an original sketch.

Here is the photograph:

“Leafy Hollow – photograph” [12th May 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

“Sunlight beamed through the hollow, legs of iron nearby strong.”

Please enjoy my artworks.

Rusted Cart of the Nature Reserve

My sketch above, “Rusted Cart of the Nature Reserve”, consists of approximately an hour-and-a-half to two hours of sketching/drawing work.

I took the photograph for the sketch composition earlier that first day, here it is:

“Rusted Cart of the Nature Reserve – photograph” [11^th February 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

This is a sketchy mood-style artwork rather than drawing out intricate details. The composition is kept as true as possible. Areas that looked like eyes, in my sketch, have become highlighted for effect.

Although whilst I was happily sketching to reference the shade and branches, I do believe the idea of eyes is correctly placed into the landscape.

This is a fun piece of art, I hope you enjoy.

“these rains”

🎧 “these rains” video still version with audio, performed by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, 15th November 2021.

I thought it would be fun to include a handwritten version too:

“these rains” iron gall ink dip nib pen, first draft. Drops of rain can be seen as an idea on the canvas paper.

Second Mount Foremost Pathway

My artwork “Second Mount Foremost Pathway“ features a view from an elevated plateau towards an organic pathway of trees in early Autumn fall. Leaves are strewn amongst infrequently trodden grasses.

The foremost tree has its ‘eye’ looking directly towards us.

Hope you enjoy 🙂

Wren’s Nest Pond in Low Tide

The four wooden posts you see in the sketch, above, entitled “Wren’s Nest Pond in Low Tide” are completely covered with water during winter, lest an inch or three.

You can see another set of posts from the same pond, taken from a slightly different angle, in “Wren’s Nest Pond – One” [16th March 2021] here: https://theunfathomableartist.wordpress.com/2021/03/25/wrens-nest-pond-one-and-two-sketches/

I think the posts are used to fortify the edge of the bank. It probably has some construction reinforcement underneath the waterline for this purpose.

This is the first draft of sketching for my artwork:

Earlier first draft of “Wren’s Nest Pond in Low Tide” on 27th September 2021 by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

The water is grey-green and murky. My sketch is intended to contrast this with the surrounding beauty. Here is the photographic inspiration for my sketch:

Photograph for “Wren’s Nest Pond in Low Tide” by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

Would you have believed in the water from my first draft? Personally I wanted this water to shine, because I feel the water of the pond is shining at us.

I’m happy with this artwork as I see the layers of themes throughout my conservation sketches, from my Local Nature Reserve, in this piece.

Surreal & Pop Art Egyptian Rabbits

“Pop Art Egyptian Rabbit with ISBN & Barcode“[9th September 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, Pop Art sketch with 3H, HB and 3B graphite pencils on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm fine art gesso primed canvas [pad], 7279 x 6004 pixels in digitally edited image shown.

At the lower-right corner of this artwork the 13-digit ISBN numbers read, in their English alpha-numerical conversion – ‘Earth Sale’.

The machine code numbers, made of a series of 0’s and 1’s, are replicated from my previous artwork – ‘Surreal Egyptian Rabbit with Venus’.

Nucleic and astronomic ideas feature without a predefined actuality.

“Surreal Egyptian Rabbit with Venus” [8th September 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, surrealist sketch with 3H, HB and 3B graphite pencils on 230gsm 270mm x 195mm fine art paper, 7599 x 6033 pixels in digitally edited image shown.

This artwork “Surreal Egyptian Rabbit with Venus” is a new composition inspired from ‘Surreal Egyptian Rabbits’.

[Please note I have not fully cropped the image above.]

“Surreal Egyptian Rabbits” [7th September 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, surrealist sketch with 3H, HB and 3B graphite pencils on 230gsm 270mm x 195mm fine art paper, 7289 x 5559 pixels in digital image shown.

This artwork is a first edition surrealist sketch from my own Impressionist artwork entitled “Two Rabbits Munching” (see sketch image below). Three rabbits of the field have become ancient Egyptian representations in symbolic form. A sword appears as a shadow to the pathway with a scythe or axe-like appearance snaking over the grasses below.

One rabbit’s head is hiding or partly obscured. Vegetation eyes look at us within long grass stalks growing at the feet of a moth. The letters SOS can be seen in the mid-ground grasses.

“Two Rabbits Munching” [6th September 2021] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch with 3H, HB and 3B graphite pencils on 230gsm 270mm x 195mm fine art paper, 7223 x 5392 pixels in digital image shown.

This sketch is composed from a spontaneous photograph during a breezy thought-walk all around my local Nature Reserve.

These particular hedgerow rabbits frequent Buzzard’s Wood Hollow and the Meadow Three grass verges.

Hilariously, further along the obscured mid-placed path there are some adventurous rabbits that use the smooth flat sculptural Water Vole Ground Stone as their convenient dropping offerings place!

As if hunger-laden grass is far too improper for their furry behinds.

Here is the grainy photograph from whence the sketch is derived. I included the vagueness of the rabbits in the sketch although I chose two rabbits rather than three for the composition:

Photograph from Hay Meadow 6th September 2021 [mobilephone camera only]

Notice how, just as in my sketch, the far left rabbit is poised for running.

Hope you enjoy 🐇 🙂

Father of Sci-Fi

Father of Sci-Fi

the Heat Hearth Ray is here

temperature gauges molten high

and we keepeth saying

thou hast Locusts for Eyes,

Digging deep, molechian

releasing gaseous meths insane

cursive wooden canes

corruption rife

Father of Woe and Strife,

Old Man of Borneo cries

because his homely home fries

the skipping Unicorn of the North died

took its place with the dodo

and white blackened lies,

The predator never softens

its invisible man-like face

with fossil fuelled Gatling paint

charmed mummied balms

beware of baying similed bait,

Watching morphological clay

take on iron bayonetted Centurion

Dalekian-like turreted firepowered display,

Degenerated eliminated biological decay

Gray calls out to fish bellied Lover of They

‘Listen, I have seen these terra-aliens

with row upon row of destructed guillotined

bloody finned melee!’,

Did Man only crawl out since 18th Century

mangle-mired oily burned dimly lit

Anti-Cyclic way?

“MΣ” Starry version with Carbon version

“MΣ [Starry version]” [25^th June 2021]
by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital sketch originally using 3H HB 3B pencils, includes 3.00 gamma correction, original sketch on A4 135gsm Artist’s paper, digital sketch 4698 x 4115 pixels.

The image entitled “MΣ [Starry version]” [25^th June 2021] is the culmination of personal artistic experimentation. Whilst I sat in the garden, eating grapes, supping an enjoyable beverage I suddenly felt inspired to produce a digital symbol.

The idea is to create a branding for cryptography technologies that can be trusted with sustainability and resources.

“Presently I do not believe that [most all] cryptocurrencies offer environmentally moral solutions.“

At first I kind of doodled on the page, using my standard ‘M’ found upon my paper artworks throughout my digital social media. However, my early doodles didn’t represent the word ‘technological’ in any way.

Seemingly we cannot avoid digital life to some extent, its part of our modern culture. Unless you live in a remote jungle happily building tree houses. Even there modern culture has encroached upon differing sensibilities in parallels to national colonialism circa 18th century.

Quickly I began to create the stylistic ‘M’ you see in these artworks, above and below:

“MΣ [Carbon version]” [24^th June 2021]
by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, sketch in digital representation using 3H HB 3B pencils, includes 0.70 gamma correction, originaly on A4 135gsm Artist’s paper, 4698 x 4115 pixels.

Furthermore I had thought about producing my own digital font over past months. I feel this M provides a starting basis for all other characters in my ‘computerised script’.

With the advent of mass communication through the internet, along with social media, we can see there is a sort of power struggle between censorship, human rights, humanitarian issues, accountability and anti-ecological commercialism.

These are complex societal mechanisms of emotion, belief and earnest interest in ensuring a well maintained sustainable planet Earth.

Through “MΣ [Starry version]” there is the idea of Universal purity, Orion the Hunter, natural constellations, molecular detail and telescopic beauty.

“Self Portrait within the Universe”

Artwork includes luminary light with digitally edited photography to create this image.

The title for this artwork is based upon an ancient quotation. “Self Portrait within the Universe” includes direct visual references to unfathomable phenomena.

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