DIGITAL DRAWING

In recent years I have been trying to revive my drawing & painting skills by projecting them into the digital realm, mostly using a Wacom tablet.

This is part of what I see on a normal day at the office, when I turn my head to the left.  I'm interested in the sense of depth receding in parallel horizontal layers, culminating with a very hazy image of the tallest building in the world.

The second one is a street scene from the area where I live.  Unfortunately I don't walk around in the day time very much because it is just too hot.  International City has only been occupied for about 10 years, but it's already looking a bit seedy, which I quite like.  Human activity is asserting dominance over the architecture.  It's messy, but it's honest.

Here's a blow-up of one corner. You can see that I'm just tracing over a photo.  Is this cheating?  What does cheating mean in the context of exploring your feelings about the place where you live?  

The next one is an imagined landscape.  I just started drawing, with no particular end in mind, exploring the capabilities of the medium, the usual tension between the abstraction of marks on a flat surface and the brain's eagerness to interpret everything as real-life objects from past experience.  It's kind of a fake watercolour I guess.  Striving for the impression of rapid, fluid gestures that somehow represent the essence of a tree, or the texture of long grass, or the rippling haze of distant mountains.

Taking that idea a bit further, here is my take on Cezanne.  More abstraction and less landscape, but still the brain is looking to find cliffs and fields, stormy skies.