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Oct.20/F/FD Drawing

Don Adleta

United States

Drawing, Graphite on Paper

Size: 12 W x 9 H x 0.1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

This drawing incorporates a lifetime of observation, experimentation, and gratification from visually translating observations.   Visually interpreting the model, her warmth, her thoughts, her center, her space, and even the blood flowing through her body are all being channeled through the medium. This woman was confident and comfortable. When I draw, I invite the audience through an implied line or an implied idea. It gives a sense of gratification and accomplishment to the viewer who is invited into the drawing to finish the implied line with the perfect line that only that viewer can envision. The viewer, therefore, takes ownership of the image through this experience. What a gift a drawing gives when it invites the viewer to participate in finishing it!  The medium inspires and even motivates the mark being made.  The specific techniques incorporated in this drawing have been evolving since 1991, while on a yearlong, professional sabbatical in New Zealand. Priming the paper with house paint creates a subtle relief of the brush strokes which interact with the graphite sticks used to make the marks, therefore, the house paint often presents another (drawn) mark within the drawing. Brushing a cloth over the graphite creates volume or directional definitions of the body. The desire to touch the subject via the drawing is part of the seductive and passionate form of the drawing.  The inventiveness in this process was where these drawings began. This mark-making process is so invigorating and fun!  

DETAILS AND DIMENSIONS
Drawing:

Graphite on Paper

Original:

One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:

12 W x 9 H x 0.1 D in

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2015, I retired and became a Professor Emeritus at Ohio University. I have been teaching Graphic Design, Drawing, Letterpress and Bookbinding at Ohio University for 25 years. I have traveled around the world several times conducting design workshops in the National Institute of Design, India, the Hong Kong Design Institute, Massey University, New Zealand, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar, University of the Arts, Philadelphia and the Basel, School of Design. I was a senior designer at The Upjohn Company, and a design faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to drawing regularly, I am writing design education books and I am in the process of reprinting my international, award-winning Adleta Perpetual Calendar.

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