TIRED MIND By Chris Bonell

These drawings are the result of a very tired mind; someone who should be sleeping.  When you get past that point of nodding off into dreams and suddenly you are wide awake with tons of energy and a sort of dark mood full of undirected and confusing emotions. Very raw and primal.  Sort of like a caveman seeing a tiger in the wild for the first time and being shocked and confused and losing an arm or a leg in the process of trying to kill it and eat it before it tries the same.  It’s the same sort of primal urges here and I’m cycling through them while all the time confused as to whether I want to rip this paper or throw it or give it a kiss or just look at it for a while.  Sometimes I get to do to all of that.  That’s a pretty good description of how this all happened, I think.

Colour Targets

This is a project that I do with my earlier grades to test their knowledge of colour mixing.  I think colour wheels are the surest way to bore a kid (or me) and thats not a good thing.  We don't want art to be equated with boredom do we?  So I do this simple painting with them and then we hang them all together.  Can you believe I only just made the connection with Kandinsky's colour circle paintings?  So the kids have to mix all their colours before they use them and they are not allowed to "make mud" or "baby poo".

DRAWING GAME by You-Bin Lee and Frank Wang

Two Senior Art students, You-Bin Lee and Frank Wang who draw for fun!

Frank and I didn't speak for an hour as we played this game.  We each took turns choosing objects in our immediate surroundings to interpret.  The objects had to be mundane, everyday things that might otherwise go unnoticed.  We were interested in how each of us had a different skill set and a different perspective (both physically and mentally).

You-Bin (green Ink)

Frank (black ink)