Michael Burgess: Life - Cycles Dying Sunflower. Oil Pastel on Ingres Grey, Textured Pastel Paper.
Life Cycles - Dying Sunflower: Oil Pastel (Drawing)
This Pastel Drawing is part of a selection of drawings that provided me with an award from the Canada Council for the Arts. My early fixation with drawing, provided me with a further understanding of my subject, by virtue of studying the gesture, planar relationships, anatomical understanding, and faithfulness to my subject, whether from life or purely conceptual, as is the case here, in terms of exploring visions from my mind's eye.
Life Cycles - Dying Sunflower: This drawing was done in Oil Pastel on Ingres Grey, Textured Pastel Paper. (Early Drawing)
The work is framed in a unique style, using a method called Float Framing. Very suitable for this particular work. The artwork seems to remain suspended, floating on top of the background matte board. Not behind, nor cut into the matte. A tab support is placed on top of the surface of a full matte board. The drawing floats on top of the matte board, behind the glass. When trimmed off with the frame, it makes for a unique piece.
This is an Original Conceptual Sketch. Based on a perpetual interest in the concept of Life Cycles. In this drawing, I considered the gesture and posture of a young Sunflower Sprout, fresh out of the seed in Springtime. In the autumn, the fully grown, dying Sunflower takes on the same shape, and posture when it is near death, with the flower facing the ground. Seasonal opposites! A plant's version of the fetal position. Life Cycles.
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