…on 18 September at PŘÍSTAV 18600 drawing on this big tree behind the stage.The thick trunk of the tree and leafy branches were a really interesting ‘surface’ on which to draw. Dima took a lot of photos of the different drawings for me, but as they were all taken from the same position beside my Tagtool workstation unfortunately the band hardly can be seen over the heads of the audience.
Below, three shots of the same image where the changing colours of the stage lighting helped to give an interesting extra dimension to the drawing.
Below, I based this composition on the ‘hole’ between the two tree trunks…
…but here I just drew all over everything.
I tried to play with the different textures and patterns formed by the tree trunk and leaves, incorporating them into this drawing for the song, ‘Kone’.
Below, I drew a pond hidden in the leaves for the song, ‘Ryby II’….
…and then for the last song of the concert, another big head.
September 2015
Exodus.
On Saturday 12 September we were at this festival which was held in a derelict industrial site at Libušín důl – a location very different from the attractive riverside park at Strakonice where I was drawing the night before! It was quite late at night when we arrived so I decided to spend my time making just one big Tagtool drawing, standing by the side of the main ‘road’ into the festival site (the same spot as in 2013!). The subject seemed an appropriate one for the ruined building on which I was drawing; the photo below shows the whole of the wall.We trained the projector on the upper part of the building so that I would be able to ‘grow’ my drawing out of the spray painting below that had been made by a graffiti crew for the opening of the festival. This light on the corner of the building made it very difficult to take photographs and I haven’t got any of the earlier stages of the drawing…but here is one showing the finished mural just before I made the final fade and my drawing disappeared into the darkness.
On 11 September we made another nice visit to Strakonice to do some Tagtooling. This time we were taking part in the town festival ‘Strakonice nejen sobě’ and we had this great riverside location for our performance!
A cloudless sky meant that I had to begin drawing before it was properly dark and as can be seen from Martin’s photo of our Tagtool set up, there was quite a lot of light pollution from the streetlights on the main road behind us.
Because of this I began to draw mostly in black and white…
…and only used some bright colour when it was really dark.
Although the river was quite fast-flowing it was possible to see some reflections in the water and to add these to the composition – which was fun.
DJ DxTech909 supplied the sound for the performance – and in the photos below, some bright colour to match the mood of his music!
Catch-up time for the blog!On 4 September we were drawing at this very nice countryside festival organised by our friend Andy Tchaiovna but I have only now got round to doing a posting…
Because there were already a lot of stage decorations, projections and lighting in front of the stage, projecting from inside the tent was not an option. But our big Epson projector easily shone through the canvas so we mounted it behind the tent inside the van and my Tagtool was connected via a long cable to the tent.
As it was not possible for me to see easily all of what I was drawing behind the performers I decided to keep things simple – a frieze of bright colours, some big heads and silhouettes…and below here are some of Dima’s photos.
This year I made Tagtool drawings on Grad Sneznik four times – I had a little ‘practice session’ the evening before the festival started, and then I drew from different positions each evening during the festival. For the practice session I stood in the meadow at the side of the castle where the the grey stone wall below contrasted with the bright white of the castle above.
In the spirit of this year’s theme of ‘sinking songs’ at the the festival, on the Thursday evening I continued with this ‘watery’ imagery in the drawing I developed over the course of the evening on the back of the castle….
Grad Sneznik is a most wonderful ‘canvas’ on which to draw and having such great music to enjoy while I was drawing made this evening just perfect for me!
…Tagtool drawing every evening!