{"id":49,"date":"2011-07-14T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriaboardman.com\/studio\/?p=49"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:18:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:18:58","slug":"thinking-more-than-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriaboardman.com\/studio\/thinking-more-than-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking more than painting"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I mentioned in my last post, I finished the sketchbook I’d been keeping, from the spring of 2010 through May 2011. I scanned every page of it (save for one that was a list to myself), and you can view them all here<\/a>, or as a slideshow<\/a>, if you would like the experience of flipping through the pages.<\/p>\n

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I’m pleased with what I’ve learned about drawing and composition through this book, and I’m really happy with some of the ideas I explored in more depth than I usually do. I can see that in the second half, I moved from essentially doodling to actually thinking about form and how to represent it and communicate about it.<\/p>\n

How this applies to painting remains to be seen, since I am most frequently consumed with schoolwork lately, or obsessing about nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But what matters to me right now is that I am thinking, that I’m in a really open and enthusiastic place in how I’m looking at the world and experiencing it. It’s lamentable that I lost my focus during grad school and got so overwhelmed with my personal life that my painting became half-hearted diagrams of scattered emotions, but that time has thankfully passed.<\/p>\n