Project Statement


train: wheels traveling on parallel tracks enabled by intersecting linear elements

Create 10 drawings exhibiting a unified voice by exploring the Golden Ratio as found within a locomotive drivetrain. The graphite on paper works will be executed in the coming months based on photographs of a decapod steam engine taken by the artist in 2009 at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Salisbury.

The compositions will use rotation within the confines of strict frontal views, and employ only shadow and detailed material rendering to develop a sense of depth. The conversation between subject and composition will draw on the “idea” of train and the inverse notion of what might be seen if the train moved around the wheel.

All 10 pieces will be the same size, each containing some part of a wheel in order to ground the viewer within the abstraction, much the same as the role the wheels play as they ride the rails.

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Progress Bar: Five drawings completed

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Drawing 5 - Finished

Here are the finished pictures for Drawing 5. It's a departure from the first four drawings but I think it plays well with the series compositions.

Enjoy!

Jacob


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Thursday, March 28, 2013

Drawing 5 - Progress Update

Hi folks

Here are some progress photos of Drawing 5.

Enjoy!!

Jacob




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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Drawing 5 Takes Shape

After some time away from the drawing table I'm back at it with a somewhat different sort of composition from a different part of a different train. This subject of this piece is from the front end of a locomotive near the top edge of the large circular plate that is the nose of the engine. There's a gap between this plate and the front of the cylinder that covers the boiler. Along the edge of that gap the metal curves up to form a lip that has rivets running all the way around it. The two types of fasteners - rivet and bolt make an interesting juxtaposition, but I think the real drama in the work will be along the gap, which will be dark with shadow. The curved edge of the riveted side will pick up the light and contrast sharply with the darkness that will make up the rest of picture.

Here's two photos of the work in progress.

Enjoy!

Jacob


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