Ginger spent a quiet though gainful Easter, doing prelim drawings for upcoming work – most notably the Rat Sutra Series (which, naturally, we all await with barely contained glee)…
…and her pictorial moniker (Ginger Lily Rose)…
…destined for a convict love token.
Prisoners of the Crown 
The love rats!
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Romancing the rat!
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Or as a chicken farmer would say “fuckin’ rats”:
What’s in your sketchbook? or is it in your head.(doing a Mozart)
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Hey Pete, we called her original brooches ‘Those Fucking Rats’! Loved them (that was around 5 or so years ago) – so the Rat Sutra is the natural progression.
Ah yes, the drawing debate. Ginger draws all the time. I don’t, so yeah, I am a bit of a Wolfganger I guess. We were just talking about it last night as a matter of a fact. Perhaps it’s just a matter of the nature of the beast. She’s the queen of precision, I’m more hyper emotive.
Though I have to confess that I did recently sit up late at night doing a pencil portrait of Tony Abbot (well, a portrait of his sneer more like!) Go figure.
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Do you remember the Kelly “cow up a tree” and “more fucking cows” sculptures, loved ’em.
Drawing, I saw an article about how we naturally drew as kids and have been trained out of it. I didn’t draw as a kid. Drawing tools weren’t around our house. We made things out of junk, mud and wood. My excuse is all that, and I think with my hands.Plasticine is tops. I can only draw if it’s to make something else.
That said I’ve spent the arvo with a pin vice and diamond burr, copying an old chinese drawing onto plate glass. Next step is the ink business I haven’t much of an idea, for printmaking. Had a few tries and was surprised how good they come out. The plate looks beautiful and I realise how much I love the clear over coloured. Got to make time for practise on the lathe. The mad monk is part of a graal project.
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I reacquainted myself with John Kelly’s cows via google – so cute.
Well your work incorporates drawing as opposed to the drawing being precursory – horses for courses, eh. I suppose that it’s not so much that drawing doesn’t figure in people’s process, rather that it’s function will, quite naturally, be totes idiosyncratic; ie comes in many guises.
I love plates – maybe even more than the prints. (Not sure what that signifies – probably something weird!)
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