In the above, I tried colors different from the previous one (below), which was more vivid. The call is for an exhibition for homeless people, and I think some gravity is due. I still don’t want to make it taken for granted by expressing gravity with sad colors, so I’m trying to find a right balance. What do you think – how would you compare this one with the previous one (below)?
Tag: beforeandafter
Swollen, Guarded, and Tranquil View of the World / ๋ถํผ, ๋ค์กํ, ๊ณ ์ํ ์๊ฐ
I was implementing Graham’s helpful suggestion when I couldn’t resist going wilder. I wanted to add hope to my rather desolate rendition of a lightening-stricken treeย (below), but I didn’t want to make it an afterthought. The contrast between the strike and new leaves had to be the main theme. And probably the leaves wouldn’t need to be prominentโthey just needed to be there, as “pennants”. So here they are.
๊ทธ๋ ์ด์์ ๊ณ ๋ง์ด ์กฐ์ธ์ ๋ฐ๋ผํ๋ ์ค ๋ ๊ฒฉํด์ง๋ ๊ฑธ ์ฐธ์ง ๋ชปํ๋ค. ๋๋ฌด ์ธ์ธํ๊ฒ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ง ๋ฒผ๋ฝ ๋ง์ ๋๋ฌด ๊ทธ๋ฆผย (์๋) ์ ํฌ๋ง์ ๊ธฐ์ด์ ๋ํ๋ ค๋ ์ฐธ์ด์์ง๋ง, ์๋์ผ๋ก๋ง ํ๊ณ ์ถ์ง๋ ์์๋ค. ๋ฒผ๋ฝ๊ณผ ์ ์ ์ฌ์ด์ ๋๋น๊ฐ ์ฃผ์ ๊ฐ ๋์ด์ผ ํ๋ค. ์๋ค์ด ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ ๋๋๋ผ์ ธ ๋ณด์ผ ํ์๋ ์์ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค – ํฌ๋ง์ ‘๊น๋ฐ’๋ก ์์ด์ฃผ๋ฉด ์ถฉ๋ถํ ํ ๋๊น. ๊ทธ๋์ ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ๊ทธ๋ ค ๋ณด์๋ค.
YK 2018.
Drawing โTranquilโ / ‘๊ณ ์ํ’ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ
Tranquil is drawn after a tree in Coe Fen. On fine afternoons, the tree stands with a glow of sunshine on its back. In the photo, you can see it is growing new twigs, that almost look like saplings, from its limb lying on the left. Surrounded with lush vegetation, it looks as though it symbolizes resilience.
In the drawing, I omitted all leaves and abstracted out the background, to focus on the form of the tree’s body. While I followed what was compelled by visual composition, I wonder how that changed the substance. To me, compared to the real-life model, the tree’s situation seems more desolateโas some of you suggestedโ, as if the whole tree and its surroundings are burned down. Its ultimate victory, which in fact happened, is suggested only in spirit. I wonder how you feel.
I want to try another version of the tree. My challenge is to keep the spirit of hope (and perhaps the leaves) without ruining the composition. I may modify the form, but I’d like to keep the original tree’s intuitive appeal and subtlety. That’s a lot to wish for, so I would appreciate any recommendation for works to model after.
‘๊ณ ์ํ‘์ ์ฝํ์ ์๋ ๋๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ์ด๋ค. ๋ง์ ์คํ๋ฉด ๋๋ฌด๋ ํ๋ณ์ ํ๊ด์ผ๋ก ์ด๊ณ ๋น๋๋ค. ์ฌ์ง์ ๋ณด๋ฉด, ์ผ์ชฝ์ ์๋ ์ค๊ธฐ์์ ์๊ฐ์ง๊ฐ ๋ง์น ์ด๋ฆฐ ๋๋ฌด์ฒ๋ผ ์๋ผ๊ณ ์๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋ณผ ์ ์๋ค. ๋ฌด์ฑํ ์ํ์ ๋๋ฌ์ธ์ฌ, ๋๋ฌด๋ ๋๊ธฐ์ ์๋ช ๋ ฅ์ ์์ง๊ฐ์ ๋ณด์ธ๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฆผ์์๋ ์ค๊ธฐ์ ํํ์ ์ด์ ์ ๋ง์ถ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์๊ณผ ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ๋ชจ๋ ์๋ตํ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ํํ๋ค. ๊ตฌ๋๋ฅผ ์ํ ์ ํ์ด์์ง๋ง, ๋ด์ฉ์๋ ์ํฅ์ ๋ผ์น ๊ฒ ๊ฐ๋ค. ์๋ ๋๋ฌด์ ๋นํด ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ ๋๋ฌด๋ – ๋ ์๋ค ์ค์์๋ ์ง์ ํ๋ฏ์ด – ๋ ์ธ์ธํด ๋ณด์ธ๋ค. ๋๋ฌด์ ์ฃผ๋ณ์ด ๋ชจ๋ ํ๋ฒ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์ ๋ณด์ธ๋ค. ๋๋ฌด๊ฐ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์น๋ฆฌํ๋ค๋ ์ฌ์ค์ ํฌ๋ฏธํ๊ฒ ์์ฌ๋ ๋ฟ์ด๋ค. ๋ ์๋ค์ ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ๋๋ผ์๋์ง ๊ถ๊ธํ๋ค.
๋๋ฌด๋ฅผ ๋ค์ ํ ๋ฒ ๊ทธ๋ ค๋ณด๊ณ ์ถ๋ค. ํฌ๋ง์ ๊ธฐ์ด(๊ณผ ์ดํ๋ฆฌ๋ค)์ ์ด๋ฆฌ๋ฉด์ ๊ตฌ๋๋ฅผ ์ด์ง๋ฝํ์ง ์๋ ๊ฒ์ด ๊ณผ์ ๋ค. ํํ๋ฅผ ๋ณํํ ์๋ ์์ง๋ง, ์๋ ๋๋ฌด์ ์ง๊ด์ ์ด๊ณ ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ ๋๋๋ ๋จ๊ธฐ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค. ์ด๋ ค์ด ๊ณผ์ ์ด๋๋งํผ ์ฐธ๊ณ ํ ๋งํ ์ํ์ด ์์ผ๋ฉด ์ถ์ฒ ๋ถํ๋๋ฆฐ๋ค.
Painting & photo by YK, 2018