John Snyder -paintings and drawings: April 2012

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Careful! Hot Wax!

Young Mother and Daughter

experimenting with crayola crayon and

soldering iron on construction paper 11 x 17

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Red, Blue, Yellow, and Violet

crayon 12 x 18

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Warm Weather

Warming Land

pastel on watercolor paper 12 x 18

Wispy Shapes

crayola crayon on watercolor paper 12 x 18

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Swirling Eddies

Through the Sculpture Garden

graphite and pastel on watercolor paper 11 x 18

Swirling Eddies

graphite on paper 14 x 18

Sunday, April 8, 2012

A Place in the Hills

graphite on watercolor paper 12 x 18

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Nouns, Verbs, Gesture, Flux

Nouns, Verbs, Gesture, Flux One

graphite on paper 8 1/2 x 11

Nouns, Verbs, Gesture, Flux Two

graphite on paper 8 1/2 x 11

Nouns, Verbs, Gesture, Flux Three

graphite on paper 8 1/2 x 11

Nouns, Verbs, Gesture, Flux Four

graphite on paper 8 1/2 x 11

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Drawing IS the afterglow of a reaction of the senses. Small children do it naturally -without plan or pretension. Their seemingly meaningless scribbles reports raw kinetic energy -feral and quite alive. Then at some point children fall prey to the tyranny of appearances -that some how a good drawing mimics objects. Teachers might even facilitate this by giving little Mary a gold star for drawing a "perfect" apple that has been neatly colored in. Drawing becomes less naturally reactive and more analytical and contrived -like other aspects of human life.

Uninhibited gesture drawing -or scribbling- gets at the basic reality that everything is always doing something. In other words, the action of the object is the object -even if the object is sitting there quietly. Beyond being an art lesson it is a life lesson.