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I first came across Isamu Noguchi's sculptures during the December
of 2006. I will confess, most of his sculptures didn't appeal much to me. I am not much inclined
towards abstract and degenerate sculptures. However one of his sculptures (not sure of the name)
which is put up at the Rockefeller Plaza in NYC caught me by surprise.. it was simply beautiful.
I loved the way mass was balanced across the sculpture and the flow of the curves. I was also
quite smitten by the play of light and shades on the sculpture.
I have this nagging feeling of incompleteness regarding the head of the person, but I know that it's because of the background. Once I deepen the background, I would get the effect of elevation. Come to think of it, I think I would also need to highlight the forehead a little bit more to bring out the shine of reflection. After all these years I have learnt that it is very essential to remind myself of the material I am sketching (in this case metal). This reminder influences the shading characteristics quite a lot, for example in case of metal the highlights (shine) is lot more and sharp that a fabric and also there is a lot of difference between the shading characteristics of metal and stone sculptures. This is a 24" X 18" sketch and I am primarily using soft graphite pastels. I dread using graphite pencils or sticks because of the shine they leave on the paper.
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I just had to capture it on paper :D. I started working on this mammoth sketch late January 07
and as with all my sketches there is no timeline attached to it. I got the scaffolding done
in January and it lay barren till recently when the itch to sketch struck and I got a tiny
piece of it done.
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