{"id":4179,"date":"2017-04-30T19:32:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T19:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2024-03-13T10:33:11","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T10:33:11","slug":"a-very-small-sketch-of-a-very-bizarre-creature-if-it-is-a-creature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/a-very-small-sketch-of-a-very-bizarre-creature-if-it-is-a-creature\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing from the imagination \u2013 a very small sketch of a very bizarre creature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/contemporary-art-bizarre-creature.jpg\" alt=\"drawing from the subconscious - drawing from the imagination\" title=\"sketch from the subconscious - a bizarre creature\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bizarre creature \u2013 sketch from the subconscious<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ink sketch on paper     9x7cm.    Digital colouring. April 2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>A small drawing from the imagination that is in one of my sketchbooks.<br>I sometimes sit down with a sketchbook when I have a few minutes to spare and just draw whatever comes into my head, unmediated. It&#8217;s a sort of subconscious, automatic drawing. I used to think that such sketches would be a good way to encourage the development of new concepts and motifs without too much conscious thought channelling my work down well trodden pathways. However, I soon found that it was actually a way of revealing to oneself one&#8217;s inner obsessive visions, as variations on the same themes inevitably lay themselves out on the page time after time. This particular sketch, I see from the notes beside it, was drawn in the gardens of Hatfield House, a stately home in Hertfordshire, while sitting next to the very fine wisteria that&#8217;s growing there. There seems to be no link between the two.<br>The colour in the image was added later, after scanning the sketch into my laptop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bizarre creature \u2013 sketch from the subconscious Ink sketch on paper 9x7cm. Digital colouring. April 2017 A small drawing from the imagination that is in one of my sketchbooks.I sometimes sit down with a sketchbook when I have a few minutes to spare and just draw whatever comes into my head, unmediated. It&#8217;s a sort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8283,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions\/8283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}