Sketchbook #1

Notebook #1

F. Scott Hess

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Didi Menendez

Instead of a novel or a short sentence, what if you were to draw a poem? What would that look like?

June 3, 2010

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gradyharp

GREAT question, Didi! Especially for Scott who is such a fine storyteller.

June 3, 2010

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F. Scott Hess

Rup, I agree with your comparison. Having witnessed you working from the model on numerous occasions, though, I know you can actually make great art out of those works. I never liked working with charcoal, but you do fantastic stuff with it.

June 7, 2010

jerry meyer

Scott, Of course they are “art” and they are wonderful.

May 31, 2010

F. Scott Hess

These days anything is art, so I’ll go along with that. But the impetus for making these drawings is much different than making a painting. A big painting is like a novel. These sketches are like a short sentence.

June 1, 2010

Yes, but sometimes a short sentence is all that is necessary and a novel overworks the essence of an idea.

June 3, 2010

gradyharp

This is a fantastic drawing, Scott! The sense of volume is extraordinary in a pencil drawing. Bravo!
Grady

May 31, 2010

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F. Scott Hess

Thanks, Grady! I learned how to draw volume looking at old prints, master studies, and some Czech printmakers (Anderle, Kulhanek). At this point it is automatic, like riding a bike. Hard to unlearn even if I wanted to.

June 1, 2010

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Sketchbook #1

All twenty-four drawings attached to this object are from the same notebook, from various sittings from 2001 to 2005.
Media is mostly pencil, with some ball point pen and ink brush pen thrown in for variety.