Posts by Leonie Andrews

I am an artist of the landscape of common objects. Discarded items and suburban life fuel my art practice.

February 5, 2012March 10, 2013 by Leonie Andrews

Colouring

I’ve been playing around with long stitch on even count canvas lately, my own designs rather than pre-designed kits. I decided to use some of my drawings as the basis for some stitching. The colour is quite strong after a simple line drawing.

I’m keeping the canvas to the same size as the original drawings, in this case 15 X 20 cms. Here is my 2 January drawing of jugs transposed into long stitch.

I quite like the jugs floating against the space of the blank canvas.

The final version turned out to be more ‘decorative’ than I had intended, mainly because I wasn’t sure that I would have sufficient thread to complete the background. Of course it may well have been more interesting if I had sewn as much background as I could with the thread I had and then filled in with the second colour.

January 27, 2012March 10, 2013 by Leonie Andrews

Latest Drawings

Here are three more drawings from the past week.

Knives and Forks

Dessert (a lovely souffle and icecream from Lolli Redini restaurant in Orange)

Comb and Fly

January 18, 2012March 10, 2013 by Leonie Andrews

Starting the New Year

Well no drawing got done between the end of my holiday and the new year. So I’ve just started in again with some drawings in the dark. These have all been based on a simple one word association.

Jug

Fish

Bird

Ball

January 18, 2012March 10, 2013 by Leonie Andrews

The Great Catch Up!

Oh well time just got away from me when I went on holidays in October/ November last year so now I’m catching up.

I did achieve my goal of drawing every day I was in Tasmania. Here are some of the drawings and watercolours I did.

The Japanese Bridge at the Emu Valley Rhododendron Garden

Cradle Mountain, Cradle Mountain National Park

Little Horn, Cradle Mountain National Park

Plant specimens, Cradle Mountain National Park

Lichens, Cradle Mountain National Park

The Hobart Farmers Market

The Bridge at Ross

October 11, 2011March 10, 2013 by Leonie Andrews

Chauvet Cave

A week ago I ‘visited’ a cave in France that had, along with a series of exquisite artworks, been locked away for over 20,000 years. I did this via the medium of Werner Herzog’s film The Cave of Forgotten Dreams. The Chauvet Cave paintings are the oldest known cave paintings in the world and have been dated to 32,000 years before present.

I concur with one comment I read that said at last, with such a documentary film, you can see a real point to using 3D technology. Seeing the film you could really appreciate the cave surface and the most intimate detail of these art works.

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Image courtesy of http://www.experienceardeche.com/page/the-chauvet-cave/gallery/chauvet_cave/62/1#

Here are lions hunting bison and rhinoceroces – the skill of the artist lies not only in the deft manner of their charcoal drawing, but the highlighting acheived by scraping the cave surface back, around the jaw of the lion on the far right and around the head of the animal in the middle, to reveal the white surface of the cave wall. The cameras moved as close to the paintings as possible so you could see the unbelievable detail of the works.

Picasso was reported as saying having left the Lascaux Caves (which are 10-13,000 years more recent than Chauvet) “in 40,000 years [sic] we have learned nothing”. Good thing he never saw Chauvet.

To ‘visit’ the cave yourself you can go to the offical cave website.

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