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Comic Kazes — Making stories one picture at a time
Posted by: meham in Writing, Drawing Words Writing Pictures, Comic KazesI lost the post I had just written. It was a lovely post about my adventure with my local art supply store and how I flowed into mentioning my involvement in drawing.
Gone, is the visual poetry. Gone now, is all the reference to anything significant. That’s what I get for not saving the text when I create it. So, now what do I say?
It was a bright, sunny day in Sacramento. I was waiting for the local library to open so that I could get some documents created to allow me to renew a professional license. Yeah, that’s it. And this is the part where I enter the art supply store. It is a different branch from my usual haunt. My local supplier is within a few walking blocks of my flat. And very familiar. But today, I feel adventurous and explore the more distant University Arts store.
This is a new shape and a new encounter with old supplies. As I was checking out I mentioned that I was “coaching” a friend in drawing. This led to a blather about Comic Kazes, my under sedation blog about visual narrative or graphic novels.
I don’t, now, remember all that I was intending to remark about either the blog or the concept of visual narrative. It’s important to me to only remember that I am intending to continue the work. Drawing is still important to me. It represents a way of thinking that words …. fill in the blank.
By filling in the blank you are participating in the non-verbal process that visual narrative draws up and into consciousness.
I bought a bunch of drawing supplies at University Art, today. Mostly supports for receiving the marks that make images. Big books of pages to hold a large scale of imagery. I don’t know what I will be doing with this collection of tool marks. That’s the beauty of the practice! The not knowing part! As for the visual narrative… There are new bits coming into the blog. For instance…
Did you know the Old Masters used a kind of visual “Fake Book”? A fake book is a collection of tunes with chords that musicians use. They apply their personal knowledge of the appropriate style to the chords and melodies in the books and, when you hear them, you are entranced. The old masters of painting did the same thing. They had books of freguently used images that they could copy, in their own style of course, and fill in the blank spaces of their paintings.
How might we use that kind of drawing jazz in our own stories, I will be asking in Comic Kazes. My partner in the endeavor is off doing her own thing, so I have to regroup and proceed on my own. No problem. Unless I drop my own drawing intentions.
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