More drawings

Three firemen in their firetruck. June 1960.

When Laurie Amat heard that I was having an exhibition of drawings that I'd made as a child, she brought me a couple drawings that I'd given her awhile back, let me borrow & scan them. Here they are. Thanks Laurie.

Two cars racing, June 1960

Toss It All Away

Altiplano

Uschi

Playons

Iodine sheet

La Florida

ALTAMIRA

PLAY MAS

SINK THE BISMARK Again

Upcoming show at Room For Paint Room For Paper

(an excerpt from the catalogue essay:)

For the third installation in the room for paper, we’re showing early work—quite early in fact—of MacLeod’s, pencil and colored pencil drawings he did between the ages of four and six as a response to the world while living abroad with his parents. We’re treating the show as just that: early work by a mature artist. MacLeod defies easy categorization as a creative person. He is a maker of objects, a publisher of books, a performer, and a keen and compassionate social critic. A brief perusal of his bio will show that he has lived his life in such a way as to reach back and validate this precocious accomplishment in a manner few could. Any questions raised by showing a child’s art in a commercial gallery are assuaged by the fact that these renderings are simply very good drawings by any standards, from the deft sensitivity of the line to the economy of handling to the unhinged titles MacLeod later gave the works, such as Cowboy Jumps Statue, Angry at Snowman, and The Trouble I Had. Scott MacLeod’s unfiltered gestures in pencil on paper from 1960 and 1962 reveal an already differentiated perception of the world, presage a lifelong effort holding true to that vision, and underscore the best of what we hope to showcase here with future exhibitions in the room for paper.

George Lawson, Director
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CRAFT MATTERS

Craft Matters

Angus Podgorny

New-ish Artwork

I've been making a bunch of new paintings & sculptures & photographing them in preparation for adding them to my Etsy store, try to sell some so I have a nickel or two at holiday time, to pay the rent etc., maybe get a lump of coal for the stocking. Here are some of the new pieces.

SEPTEMBER FACES

There doesn't seem to be as much future as I used to think there was.

Back to wage-slavery

Boojum

Camper

Actually this is me but from February not September. I was drawing hooded figures at Southern Exposure's Monster Drawing Rally. I think I found this picture on Megan Wilson's blog so I guess she took it. Thanks Megan.

SM 1962

The pencil drawing is by me and this bottom image is Untitled (Man at Table with Chair on Table), 1990 by an artist named Teun Hocks. Two different ways of looking at one's 50th birthday. I suppose it's up to me to decide which way is best.