Cloud Bloom

“Cloud Bloom” is a subtle canvas cloudscape using pencils and charcoal stick. Inspired by Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” I made use of yellow and blue tones to create a ‘3D’ swirling night sky.

Magenta appeared naturally whilst making the clouds, adding depth to the troposphere. This occurred through my art process, blending the yellow, blue and pencils work together.

The clouds performed a show for us with “Cloud Bloom”. I chose the title to highlight the destructive effects of manmade climate change.

Here is the original photograph for “Cloud Bloom”:

“Cloud Bloom – Photograph” [2111hrs, 15th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

As you will see from the time I photographed this image [2111hrs], I made this canvas artwork, literally, whilst day became night, late evening. The cloud arrangement is truly theatrical.

On the canvas “Cloud Bloom” is magnificent. One of those pieces you want to sit there and view from a comfortable sofa chair.

I thought I would also make two different versions for lovers of my blog to enjoy.

Here is the Collage version:

“Cloud Bloom – Collage” [18^th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, 300dpi, 3133 x 2114 pixels.

“Cloud Bloom – Collage” is made of twenty images, alternating between one colour and one black/white digital photograph, 300dpi, 3133 x 2114 pixels in image.

“Cloud Bloom – Collage” is a Pop Art Landscape piece in Warhol modernist style. This piece follows a tradition I have with, at the very least, my oil paintings. A distinctive feature either purposed or by pure chance, known to those that study my works greatest.

Where would “Collage” be without the full Black/White edition?

Here is “Cloud Bloom – Black & White”:

“Cloud Bloom – Black & White” [18^th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digitally edited image 3086 x 2657 pixels.

I really love this version equally as much as the other digital/print editions.

“Cloud Bloom – Black & White” is a digital/print version from the original colour artwork. My ‘Black & White’ edition is one officially authenticated digital edition and a set of three individual print versions only.

I carefully balanced the shadows to create a uniquely dramatic version.

On the day I first published these photographs online [18th July), Europe and the UK experienced cataclysmic manmade weather. A large-scale heatwave exceeded 35 degrees Celsius in many areas.

Wildfires have ravaged thousands upon thousands of hectares of land in many countries, such as France, Greece, Portugal and Spain – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62210116

I feel my artworks in this blog article draw attention to the blight of our climate through a persistently unsustainable ecological mechanotide.

“Mechanotide” – any human activity involving machinery whereby its usage grossly damages a habitat, the environment, climate, other biological systems and/or organisms. In a commercial sense “mechanotide” is usually wanton, sustained and destructive actions prior to appropriate, properly enforced legislation and countermeasures to reverse their damaging effects.

For instance, we could include some cryptocurrencies technological resources methodology (excessive, unnecessary electricity grid usage), certain fracking techniques (earthquakes) and as yet unmitigated heavy use of transportational fossil fuels (air pollution) in towns and cities as examples of modern “mechanotide”.

I do hope you love my artworks.

Evening at Hay Meadow

“Evening at Hay Meadow – Original” (shown above) took me around one hour in two sessions. The first session of approximately 35 minutes was made whilst sitting by the metal gate in Hay Meadow.

Literally viewing the composition you see in this sketch.

I took a photograph to continue working on a second draft session later that evening. Using charcoal stick, HB and medium charcoal pencils for around 25 minutes.

Upon completing the canvas artwork that late evening, I am very happy with this work. The differentiation between light and dark tones, just as the sound and silence intervals in music, makes for a very pleasing composition here.

“Evening at Hay Meadow – Sepia” [14th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with H, HB, 4B, 8B, charcoal (m) pencils and charcoal stick, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 3282 x 2807 pixels.

‘Sepia’ (shown above) represents ye olde days prior to the modern Industrial Age (1760 onwards) when all global [agricultural] land was largely unpolluted, vigorous and pure.

“Evening at Hay Meadow – Sunshine” [14th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with H, HB, 4B, 8B, charcoal (m) pencils and charcoal stick, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 3282 x 2807 pixels.

For this ‘Sunshine’ artwork (shown above) I digitally added the Sun and sunflare you see beautifully radiant hovering over the treeline.
Viewing my ‘Sunshine’ version we can see the idea for the passing of time, interconnective to the Sepia style of photography.

Astronomers write that it takes over eight minutes for the light from our nearest star, the Sun, to reach Earth.

Therefore could we say there is a certain nostalgia to the hue we see representing time?

Look at how colour influences our perception of age. From sepia colours in photographs, to the aged reddish-rust we see upon once silvery shining metals.

“Evening at Hay Meadow – Green” [14th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with H, HB, 4B, 8B, charcoal (m) pencils and charcoal stick, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 3282 x 2807 pixels.

‘Green’ (shown above) represents the colour of grasses and leaves attractively highlighting the beauty of nature in this artwork.

I really love every one of these new artworks. The clouds are understated yet substantive. There are three layers of darker tones, lower, mid and mid-upper in my composition. We see vagueness afar, whilst definition is somewhat clearer in the nearer foreground grass stalks. Although even with the latter I have tried to produce movement, as if the tall grasses are swaying.

I visually measured the grasses surrounding me in the field, that very evening. Certainly over four feet in least trodden areas nearer the ‘Ridge Willow’ fence, even nearing five feet tall!

“Where rabbits and insects are my friends”.

“Evening at Hay Meadow – Collage” [cropped – 14th July 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with H, HB, 4B, 8B, charcoal (m) pencils and charcoal stick, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 3264 x 3264 pixels.

For my ‘Collage’ artwork (shown above) I brought together ‘Original’, ‘Sepia’, ‘Green’ and ‘Sunshine’ into a slightly cropped collage of nine photographs. Visually repeating the artworks in Warhol style for dramatic artistic effect.

Please note my ‘Sepia’, ‘Sunshine’, ‘Green’ and ‘Collage’ artworks are all individual digital artworks. “Evening at Hay Meadow – Original” is a sketched canvas artwork, and a digital artwork too.

For those interested here is the photographic composition by myself from where my “Evening at Hay Meadow” series of artworks has derived:

“Evening at Hay Meadow – Photograph” [2010hrs, 13th July 2022 – unedited digital] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

This lovely photograph is taken whilst sitting directly in front of the metal gate adjoining Wren’s Nest Pond.

Hope you enjoy.

Geese and Ducks in Moonlight

“Geese and Ducks in Moonlight” took me thirty-five minutes from start to finish.

First drawing session within ten minutes for the water on the 25th. Second session for the geese and ducks with a few adjustments to the water in twenty-five minutes.

Here is my photograph providing the inspiration for this drawing:

“Geese and Ducks in Moonlight – Photograph” [21st June 2022] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

As you can see, I made artistic choices with the geese I chose to draw. For the purpose of imagination, I entitled this ‘geese and ducks’ for the viewer to decide the waterfowl they envisage in the sketch.

I feel this artwork strongly resonates peace and calm.

Hope you enjoy this.

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.

From the Fishing Peg

One of my favourite picturesque places around the local lake. I sat here sometime observing two partnered ducks sleeping upon the peg you see here. After awhile another duck came along and momentarily disturbed their peace.

I realised the vista was perfect for a photograph and subsequent sketch.

‘From the Fishing Peg’ took me precisely forty minutes from start to finish.

Here is the photograph providing the composition for this sketch:

Photograph for “From the Fishing Peg” by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.

My sketch includes various techniques I have developed for my artworks. Interestingly, the water is created utilising a ‘fabric patchwork’ structure. There is at least three other personal techniques used within this sketch for the water, trees and foreground.

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