#lifedrawingperth

"The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable." -K. Vonnegut ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #lifedrawingperth #lifedrawing #figuredrawing #expressionism #sketch #charcoal #perthart #perthartist #australianartist #ryanahern #ryanahernartist @ryandavidahern (at Perth, Western Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBPCnoiHzgD/?igshid=1tn8u2vh1fg6r

Watching earth from space from NASA’s space station live a few days ago was mesmerising and also unnerving. Other humans precariously floating, nothing below their astronaut boots except that all-too-familiar view of earth. A rock poised and spinning in space, surrounded by vast nothingness. Dark matter. And here I was sitting in my lounge room on my velvet couch drinking black coffee; having to constantly remind myself that I, my life, it’s insignificant concerns and priorities, were way below, on that celestial blue rock known to harbour life. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ —- Trivia: The days and nights are only 45 minutes long for the astronauts as they orbit around the earth from the light side to the dark side ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #lifedrawingperth #lifedrawing #figuredrawing #expressionism #sketch #charcoal #perthart #perthartist #australianartist (at Perth, Western Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBKF6WQny1W/?igshid=1f8ikz5ue87g5

Charcoal head ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #lifedrawingperth #lifedrawing #figuredrawing #expressionism #sketch #charcoal #perthart #perthartist #australianartist (at Mundaring, Western Australia, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBGFeDtHgdu/?igshid=np5dgwodwsz0

Figure. Charcoal and conte crayon ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #lifedrawingperth #lifedrawing #figuredrawing #expressionism #sketch #charcoal #perthart #perthartist #australianartist (at Mundaring, Western Australia, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CA4N3l7nILw/?igshid=1iz76s5c6lz2r

converging figures, charcoal ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #lifedrawingperth #lifedrawing #figuredrawing #expressionism #sketch #charcoal #perthart #perthartist #australianartist (at Midland Junction Arts Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAv73QtHxGT/?igshid=1wc4qbjdnmate

A voluntary hiatus from social media and an involuntary hiatus from social life - due to reasons of pandemicity - made for a decent period of painting and just being. With no expectations, no deadlines, no workshops, no external pressures one can paint freely. Now we just wait for a return to normal; our life prepandemic. The light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel for many. If and when that becomes a reality once again, perhaps these quarantine paintings will have their day in an exhibition of some sort. In the meantime, a figure drawing from the archives. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #lifedrawingperth #lifedrawing #figuredrawing #expressionism #sketch #charcoal #perthart #perthartist #australianartist (at Mundaring, Western Australia, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAuTflbn230/?igshid=1xbtbv51cyy89