Continuing the Art of Play
February 17, 2021
Artist: David Puttick
About the artist:
David Gerald Puttick (born Hampshire, UK, May 13, 1963) is an “outsider” artist of passion and intensity who has been making art throughout his life. Diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic in college at age 20, his health has seesawed through the years. He sees faces in the cracks of sidewalks and bark of trees and “finds” them in his fierce, mixed-media, drawings of paint, pencil, ball-point pen, and bitumen paint (tar).
Warm-up:
Use our random scribble drawing exercises by taking your line for a walk on the page to create a random line drawing. This time, however, your line does not have to be continuous; you may pick up your pencil and place it back down on the paper.
Important: For this warmup, you will keep your eyes closed!
Materials
- paper
- pencil
- markers, paint pens, colored pencils, crayons may be used to complete the drawing
Our goal is to recreate the freedom of drawing randomly and playing on the page without much thought. Think as a child would play and discover. This is an exercise in letting go and taking risks with the lines, shapes, markings, and colors.
Project:
Continue to expand and extend the work from your warm-up.
making sense of the random
“Recently, I have noticed faces in natural forms such as trees, stones, paving stones, and other places, (even in Formica and mass produced tiling where a vision of general ambience is the norm). I believe this process of recognition goes back to pre-history. My course of enquiry has covered the Fibonacci sequence, our desire to create form out of the random, and embracing the unknown or unconscious. I photograph, document, and collect objects, and draw/paint my own interpretations of what I see.” David Puttick, 2017.
All drawings shown measure 22 x 16” and date from 2017.
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