Gesture Drawings

Here are some of my gesture drawings from class I liked.  Using a bounding box and using value more pointedly...by the end...

Punk Rock Baby - Melissa Nolan

These are my drawings for my punk rock forms.  The above -  I was playing with a scrap of paper meets scrap of poster and the whole torn and battered anti-establishment (ness?) of the punk scene - you said to get a little crazy and push the envelope - I ripped the paper and crinkled it and wrote crazy stuff on it.  The final drawing I simplified to make a shape based drawing with suggested body parts - using black and white and a child's crayon for a touch of irony on the potty chair.  Punk rock baby is taking a shit.  LOL  He doesn't give a shit because he is a punk rocker baby.  I am happy with this drawing it brings the sharp shapes and the softer shapes and the irony and rebelliousness of the punk rockers out in a way to combine with my sense of humor.  Anarchy is shit?

Marlborough Gallery Visit

Hi!  This is a sketch I did from the Marlborough Gallery installation - a sculpture there.  The sharp shapes paired together...yet things not found together in nature whatsoever...the contrast appeals to me.  The round sharp shapes and the pointed sharp shapes.

Punk Rock Forms - Melissa Nolan

Hi...I have not seen the Marlborough Gallery Exhibit yet as I am timing my visit due to family concerns with the holiday for Friday as I also want to go to the PS 1 Book Fair on the same day!  Yeah I do!  Sorry about that.  But I did look at it online and am super psyched!!!  Ok.  The world I picked was Punk Rockers.  The shapes and textures involved in that movement and in the people who still adopt the look is all at once sharp and textured and loud...and then surly and laid back...from mohawks and safety pins in the face to my world in suburban NJ is quite a leap currently.