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mattiasdrawings · 11 months

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Drawing. Ink and graphite. Collage. Mattias Gunnarsson

#artistic practice #collage #art #artist #drawing #graphite #ink #non figurative #illustration #black #color #blue

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mattiasprojects · 1 year

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POSTER SHOP //. MATTIAS SHOP

New shop. Welcome Posters. Print-on-demand. Choose - order - receive in mail

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#colors #painting #acrylics #acrylic painting #contemporary painting #non figurative #abstract #art #artist #poster #posters #poster shop #collage

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optikes · 10 months

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an Australian painter in the streets of New York...

John Firth-Smith (born 1943) Australia

1 White Street # 3 (1982) acrylic on stretched 300gsm rag paper, 104cm x 104cm

2 Black Street # 27 (1982) pulp paper and mixed media, 35cm x 35cm

3 Place, Orientation and Navigation (1983) oil on linen 305.0 x 335.5 cm

4 Winter Rounds (1982)

5-7 the artist connecting dots & lines in New York

8 the artist’s photo-documentation of line and shape on New York streets

9 Marshall Islands stick chart

A Professor Peter James Smith from menziesartbrands.com

In 1981 John Firth-Smith travelled to New York to experience the city, to paint there as a local and allow the powerful New York art scene to wash over him. It was a time in the city (that the writer experienced first-hand) when graffiti clogged West Broadway and adorned the walls of the cross-town subway platforms. The locals were producing abstract paintings that had active, brushy surfaces. The curator Barbara Rose, in 1979, produced a show of such work called American Painting: The Eighties that looked like Abstract Expressionism with a college education, and heralded the rise of art stars Susan Rothenberg (1945- ) and Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007). It was the perfect time and place for Firth-Smith’s painterly surfaces to evolve.

From his studio on 20th Street, Firth-Smith could look down on the first winter snows in the city. In the early morning the snow appeared as a soft white blanket, a shroud that covered everything, but later in the day it was stained and marked by the black tracks of car tyres and the footfalls of passers-by. He became fascinated by the ethereal gothic nature of what he saw: steaming ventilators were often to be found in the middle of busy streets, their smoke stacks rising through the traffic, their warmth contradicting the presence of winter snow and sludge. Such is the sensibility that is vividly painted in Winter Rounds 1982, an attractively-proportioned canvas that effortlessly supports the New York dynamic.

Winter Rounds 1982, is ingrained with the gritty, wintry ambience of the city. Like schematised patterns taken from a subway map, or a diagram drawn in an attempt at directing a stranger, there is a frenetic congested intensity in the work that is broken by dots and splashes of colour.’

This painting shows Firth-Smith’s familiar arabesque line, sweeping through the rising red veils of smoke and graffiti, to challenge the gridded infrastructure of the city. Notions of infrastructure usually revolve around trains, bridges, roads and buildings; however with a different kind of infrastructure in mind, the artist deploys a series of connected straight lines and dots to the heart of his picture. In his monograph on Firth-Smith, writer Gavin Wilson describes how the artist had become fascinated with the Victorian cast iron manhole covers found at street level. They often had elaborate decorative surfaces and had holes drilled through them. Firth-Smith tied small weights to the ends of strings, and dropped the weights down the holes making the strings pull tight between the holes; so the sequences of dots and connected lines were born. He later photographed these microcosms, and like an industrial espionage operative, these found their way into his painting process. Ironically, these patterns are reminiscent of stick charts from the Marshall Islands – structures formed by tying small sticks in a gridded pattern to represent the sea, with shells knotted at the intersections to represent the locations of islands. The sea is never far away from the artist’s concerns.

Only in New York could Firth-Smith have had such fertile exposure to the early stages of neo-expressionism. He embraced many deterministic methods of applying paint with drawn lines and dots, then overpainting, then re-positioning more gridded lines and dots; but these methods always relied on chance and randomness. He painted and repainted layer upon layer. ‘The effaced surfaces of the completed work were like a palimpsest, leaving only the faintest trace of his earlier marks.’ It is the beauty of those effaced surfaces that captures the imagination with their daring trails of snow-lines, and the monochrome expanse of restless white.

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#firth-smith #non objective #abstraction #non figurative #structural frame #marshall islands #stick chart #pacific

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acorviart · 2 months

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hobby crafts and great and everyone should get into a hobby craft, but I really really really really need people to do at least a little bit of research into what they’re interested in and learn important things such as that fact that polymer clay, air-dry clay, and resin are NOT food safe. yes that includes clay that’s been coated in a clear coat like mod podge (the dishwasher safe mod podge is not food safe)

the reason that some* ceramics are food safe is because glazes melt into essentially a thin layer of glass on the surface, and the clay is heated to a temperature that vitrifies it. and I say some because not all ceramics/glazes/firing temps are food safe, and that’s a whole other deep dive of research for people who get into ceramics. but the point is that most people can’t do that at home, so they look into non-ceramic materials and assume that’s a cheaper and easier way to make food-safe items, when really what’s going to happen is all these materials will leach into your food, especially with heat applied

also can resin creators wear proper PPE with gloves and respirator, I am begging you, that shit is toxic to touch and inhale

#idk where I was going with this #resin videos on instagram piss me off #use non ceramic clays to make cute jewelry and figures and stuff #don’t make mugs unless you want to drink plastic

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droptheguillotineplease · 10 months

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Content Warning: non-sexual nudity

trans-femme figures sketchdump (✿◡‿◡)

#IT HAS TO BE SAID! I do not think non-sexual nudity should be censored but I respect that these are the tumblr guidelines :/#myart #trans art #art #sketches #figure drawing #sketchdump #trans femme #queer art #wlw art

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dailyfigures · 3 months

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save me hatsune miku....hatsune miku...save me....

#shitposting on the figure blog feels illegal #just had to quickly make these.....this is what i look like irl btw #hatsune miku #vocaloid #miku #miku meme #vocaloid meme #me.txt #non figure

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 3 months

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Happy Year of the Dragon!

#non mdzs #lunar new year #digital art #Still struggling with figuring out digital art stuff but I’m getting there #The year of the rabbit really was a special and lucky one for me. Maybe because sometimes it is also the year of the cat.#The energy of the rabbit might not be with me but I hope to have the wisdom of the dragon leading my days #This week is going to be filled with a lot of sappiness so I won't go into yet.#But thank you to everyone for making me feel less anxious and afraid with all the kindness you have shown me.#I have become somewhat domesticated now. I will sniff your hand if there is a treat in it. Maybe blink slowly at you from a distance.#HAVE A WONDERFUL LUNAR NEW YEAR EVERONE! We are all gonna do great B*)

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sakurafigures · 1 month

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♡ Senshi (Dungeon Meshi) - Nendoroid

#senshi #dungeon meshi #nendoroid #chibi #non scale #articulated #figurine #figure #anime figure #anime #anime figurine #good smile

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industrations · 4 months

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Why is evan literally the easiest to draw. Like he just always looks good. Why do i have to fight for my life to draw the others but evan is just so well behaved. Not very death eater of him tbh

#evan rosier my babygirl #maybe its a sign #hes like please non gendered parental figure #draw me more

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mokadevs · 3 months

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day 5: hands for holding

#minifemslashfeb2024 #texlapp #lappland #texas arknights #texas the omertosa #lappland arknights #arknights #wow look a non fate piece !!#( me lugging my bags back to the arknights fandom like a guilty ex ) erhm hiii ^_^;;#kiki draws #i drew the hands first and then spent like #20 minutes trying to figure out wtf the rest of the drawing would be lol #it was a little embarrassing but i survived yippee !

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allthecastlesonclouds · 4 months

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hi something something bad kids all magic users now something something everyone learning how to save each other something something they've all got friendship bracelets and they're gonna make it through this year if it KILLS them

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #riz gukgak #fhjy #kristen applebees #fig faeth #the bad kids #I HAVE WANTED 6/6 MAGIC BAD KIDS SO LONG. ALMOST SCREAMED.#and i'm talking i guess #but like. riz switching to arcane trickster to be better in combat.#fig learning revivify and other non-bard-centric spells because she's afraid of what will happen if kristen goes down.#kristen better studying her own magic to figure out how she could've saved everyone before and deciding never again.#the first thing gorgug does with artificer magicTM is healing the hangman and 3 of his 4 spells are literally to save something/someone #adaine expanding her magical pallette. fabian reaching out to each of his friends. i could write an essay i LOVE them

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mattiasdrawings · 11 months

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Studio book (-s) (2023) An ongoing project of Visual Notes where the Studio books grow together with the various projects I do. Mattias Gunnarsson

Postershop --> Mattias/shop Instagram ----> @mattiasgunnarsson Website ------> mattiasg.se

#rollerball #sketchbook #art journal #stusio #studio work #studio book #artist publishing #art #artist #drawing #graphite #ink #non figurative #illustration #black #color #blue

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thefigureresource · 2 months

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Nendoroid Bond Forger [Spy × Family] from Good Smile Company coming May 2024.

#Nendoroid #Bond Forger #Spy × Family #Good Smile Company #Non Human #Dog #Bond #Spy Family #Spyfamily #Spyfam #Spy x Family #SxF #Spyxfamily #Anime Figures

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quill-n · 4 months

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Here's that Molly animatic I've been working on <3 !! I thought that this song fit him a little too well so I had to do something with it :)

[Here's the Youtube link for anyone that wants to watch it there]

thumbnail posting for Ant <3

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catabasis · 9 months

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there's something a bit sad but also very meaningful about the way Crowley dances around using the word 'couple' during his confession. it's a bit sad because it seems like he's afraid to use that word (perhaps because of the fear of going too fast for Aziraphale, and the strong connotations of that word), but mainly i find it very lovely and meaningful because, instead of using that word, he comes up with terms and expressions of his own to describe what they are (“we're a team, a group. group of the two of us”, “just the two of us”, “just be an us”, “you and me”, “we could have been us”) and to me, those expressions have a stronger and more beautiful meaning than the word 'couple', because just in the same way that they discovered their own humanity, they've also discovered their own form of love, one that goes beyond human standards, and one that is unique to them.

#good omens is a love story: love for humanity and love between two non-human beings that are figuring out what that love means to them #good omens #crowley #aziraphale #ineffable husbands #good omens spoilers #go2 spoilers #txt #my thoughts

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dailyfigures · 5 days

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is it ok if i use your pictures in my divorce proceedings

only if you win everything. i don't want losers associated with my name

#anon #ask #non figure

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