Lino Cut Work 'Cats'

Lino cuts ‘Cats’; I.G.

     I am adding my first attempting to work with the lino cut technique for illustrating the writer Danill Kharms poem.

   

 Lino cuts ‘Cats’ & Lino cuts prints; I.G.

     Thinking about a  poem conveying the plot ‘Cats via Man’, I went to the conclusion do not start a composition already made illustrating a scene when the man is offering the dinner for cats, while them are refusing  shown kindness, but to start from separate characters: to think about cats and make lino cuts first and after to ‘relay’ on the man.

      Lino cut blocks on the left side are changed, as I more worked with the thick line cutting out not necessary fields. I think the cat is more convincing as lines have got right balance.  Different inks are as the option to try to look what kind of colour works better – black, blue, brown or green with the fusion of yellow.  However, my lino cut printing are still drying, next time I am going to add visual results and continue ‘the man research’. 

Observational Drawing The Subject 'Cats'

     Whereas a cat as ‘the subject’ might be perceived as a set from geometric shapes – circles, I drew a whole body from circles, turning the cat’s face or the body by suggestive movement.  

Graphite pencil sketches ‘Cats’ (1); I.G.

      To get the texture of the cat’s fur, I applied different lines, but here might be problem with understanding alight and tones as if the model is not surrounded in the natural environment, it is hard to decide how the light and shades change the subject to get it right. 

    

Graphite pencil, brown felt pen sketches ‘Cats’ (2); I.G.

    Experimenting with a simply graphite pencils and a brow felt pen lines, I looked how different materials affect the visual outcome of the cat and drew it.

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 Watercolour pencils, graphite pencils, ‘Cat’ (1); I.G.

Watercolour pencils, graphite pencils, ‘Cat’ (2); I.G.

Watercolour pencils, graphite pencils, ‘Cat’ (3); I.G.

    

  The colour drawings ‘allow’ me to think about making, for instance’ lino cut illustration, what I am going to do so far still making observational drawings.

  

Spike Milligan's Creation & Illustrating Nonsense Poems

Spike Milligan's Creation & Illustrating Nonsense Poems

Spike Milligan

Ref:  The photo of the PMI/Production BBC (1996) Spike Milligan: Spike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQU9SG5C3P4

      Reading information sources and looking at the videos about Spike Milligan aka Richard Henry Seller (1925 – 1980), English film actor, comedian, poet and singer, I went to some

      Accordingly, to the historical point of view, the certainty as the cultural value arises from suffering (the authors such as Thom Auchler, Laura Vivian Strauss). Therefore the biographical lived emotional/sensuous experience for the creator becomes most important factor helping to make a unique acoustic, linguistic,  and visual images.

      The comedian actor’s Spike Milligan biography proves that his convincing characters ‘came’ from his life. There comes philosophical meaning – everything what we make in the present has got less value because of an unknown private proximity. Reaching the line beyond, where ‘de jure’ and ‘de facto’ becomes united, the memory of the actor/writer/poet/artist becomes not only the property of the society with his artifacts, but the artwork itself as the cultural heritage what automatically has got its high price.

     I should concern about the way of the visual transitions, what should show elements of the pain and the play mixed together. Illustrating the scenes ‘the Cats via Man’, in one hand, it is necessary to show seriousness of the text (as each text has got the comedy and the drama elements including abnormality of subjects). In the other hand, there should be exhibited the joy, happiness, amazement and the surprise transition using the system of individual visual symbols.

Referencies:

1.      Auchlers, T. and  Strauss. L. V. (2003) Dictionary of  Psychoanalysis.  Vilnius, Vaga.

2.    Banyan Tree Infomedia LLP. (2008) Spike Milligan. [Online]. Available from:  http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/terence-alan-patrick-sen-milligan-2879.php [Accessed 05 November 2016].

3.      Broadcasting Company A PMI/Production BBC. (1996) Spike Milligan: Spike. [Online]. Available from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQU9SG5C3P4 [Accessed 06 November 2016]. 

4.    Digital Radio Station BBC Radio 7. (2013) Spike Milligan. [Online]. Available from:  http://

       www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/comedy/progpages/spike/spikemilligan.shtml [Accessed 05 November 2016]. 

5.    Dixon, S. (2002) Spike Milligan. [Online] Available  from  https://ww w.theguardian. com/news/2002/feb/28/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries [Accessed 05^th  November 2016].

6.      Nonprofit Organization NPO. (2015) Spike Milligan. [Online]. Available from http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/spike-milligan  [Accessed 07th November 2016].