notes from the drifting spaces
Blair’s art notes…
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Drawing and walking through the cityscape
In the last week I’ve been wondering around the urbanscape continuing and trying to develop my recent series of more free drawings. The Sketchbook Monster is on the loose. The […]
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The May Grand Sumo Tournament on in Tokyo
The Natsu Basho is up and wrestling! I’m quite into the whole Ozumo experience and have been watching since it started on Sunday. There are six tournaments per year, three […]
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Drawing through the factory floor and beyond
Down with the pens for a day and had fun experimenting with tablet drawings! Working partly from memory but keeping in mind a factory visit I drew at. Looking for […]
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Inspiring artist: Per Kirkeby
When I visited the Danish National Gallery (Statens Museum for Kunst) in Copenhagen in 2010 I enjoyed seeing the work of the great Danish painter and sculptor Per Kirkeby for […]
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Bruce Peter’s Grand Ferry Tour of Japan
My good friend Bruce Peter (academic at Glasgow School of Art and design and maritime journalist) is recently returned to Scotland after three weeks of travel in Japan, sailing on […]
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Mountain poetics and sculpturing forms
These exerpts are from my recent trip to Rannoch Moor, working a bit more abstractly with the forms, all practice that I plan to keep developing… and will aim to […]
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Depth of Reflection – notes on David Lynch and Dogen
I made this small visual note after running along the Firth and Forth Canal, the reflections can be so deep, somehow reality is deepened. The space is literally deeper, becoming […]
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Spontaneous tablet drawing
Have been trying out a new tablet rather than mouse and liked this quick fun study, quite simple and ties up with the recent sketchbook marker studies – the marker […]
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