Graphite
by Steve Mitchell
oh I see you
in the scrawl and scribble
Graphite Buddha
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© Steve Mitchell 2011
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I got the impulse/idea, for the above, after after reading this haiku, by Laz Freedman, over at Laz Freedman’s Poetry Blog.
Heed not Steve
Heed not Steve 
I sure dig this one Steve 🙂
All the Best,
Peace and Joy,
Laz
Thanks, Laz. I’m glad. Peace to you, and joy too!
saw your comment and the link through on Laz’s blog, great graphite picture born of an idea from words of haiku, isn’t connection a wonderful thing? x
Thank you. Connection is a wonderful thing. Thanks for reading and commenting! 🙂
Ah. I have been waiting for an image from you. I started following after your lion for Richard’s blog challenge, Steve. More. Now we need a painted Buddha haiku. Love the drawing!
…and the haiku.
😀
Thanks Leslie! That’s a good idea – I think I will do a painted Buddha.
I did this post for fun even though I’m self-conscious about my unrefined drawing/rendering skills (and I’m pretty rusty, to boot). I appreciate your encouraging words! I’m more comfortable with paint (rusty there, too), but I’ve been thinking, especially after reading your posts, of incorporating more detailed drawing into the mix. I need practice; the graphite Buddha is, you know, pretty much a doodle. I do enjoy doodling. 🙂
I consider doodling a form of drawing and I wish I was more abstract in my painting and drawing. Nothing will be “rusty” to us. Create away!!!!
🙂 I shall!
bwahahahahaaha. what Leslie said, yeah, More.
i really like the energy and movement in the arms and body of the image. all together the entire image is way cool.
way fun on ku becoming haiga. – yeah. more. please.
…and cool on Laz for inspiring.
Thanks Wrick! I’m glad you like it. Like I told Leslie, I’m a little sheepish about my pencil-work, but not enough to keep me from putting it on the interwebs, apparently!
Yeah, Laz’s cool ku stuck in my head and I had a notion of the drawing and the new ku. In my mind I saw a slowly revealed, ghostly buddha, floating in a haphazard field of graphite texture. I knew, though, I don’t have the drawing skills to create that image, and it wouldn’t in my voice, or temperament, so I went with a ‘hit and run’ doodle!
Instead of haiga, I should call it doodle ku! 😛
yeah. i know what you mean about the difference between our vision and our doing. personally, i’m fine with starting out on my visionary imagination idea. once a few lines, colors, things are down tho, i let go of the idea and just respond to what i’ve set down and let it grow into what ever it is that way. of course… i may start out drawing buddha and end up with a camel. …i dont think the buddha would mind tho. it’s just easier to go with the direction of that dialog and flow rather than to struggle against it – because that Is what i can do.
and yeah too. again. what Leslie said. – a doodle is drawing (imo too). so doodle on. if you doodle in the same way – the same kind of line, graphite movement etc. for the entire drawing, it’ll be an entire world complete unto itself. cool on that too.
fun. doodle ku on. aloha
oh. wait. you mentioned a few pages ago what you thought about A Confederacy Of Dunces. yeah, i have to agree – a really terrific book. currently i’m reading for a second time (because i forgot which numbers i’d read and bought it again – because it was there – used of course – hardback 50 cents, how could i not buy it?) Eleven On Top (Janet Evanovich). i liked those books – the ones i’ve read. they’re a funny fun read. but i’m finding a second reading even funnier. and funner.
Thanks Wrick! That’s very much how my writing process goes. I’ll start with an idea. Sometimes, the whole thing will write itself in my mind before I start; sometimes, as soon as I start writing, the idea morphs entirely into something else.
I’ll have to check out Eleven On Top – I hadn’t heard of that one. Reading now I’m reading an analog book, hardback(!), my mom gave me when she was visiting. It’s Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear. She didn’t care for it (that’s why she gave it to me). So far, I’m liking it, but I have a feeling it’s going to end with a cliff hanger.
I used to doodle all the time, when I was a kid, and always had a pencil or a pen with me!
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cool on you as kid Steve – yeah, start there, and do that doodling to build up your images (my opinion).
there are some incredible works built up of something like “doodling lines” out of ballpoint pens as well as graphite. using the same kind of line though out the work ties a work together really well – just like using a consistent voice in a writing work (not that it cant be done by varying voice or drawing-line and mixing them to get interesting effects too).
yeah, that same process you use for writing – sometimes it comes out mostly the way you saw it in your head and sometimes it takes on it’s own life.
you’ve used several different kinds of line energy in the Buddha drawing. it works and any one of them would work all the way through too.
– eleven on top – is a P.I./detective genre book (just so you know). i often read those to go to sleep by. i cant read an art book and go to sleep – i’ll just want to get up and work. bwahahahaha.
i hope you dont mind all my art talk stuff here. i know i can get carried away. oops. aloha.
Aloha!
I don’t mind at all. Your art talk is very interesting and I’m glad you share!
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