A Daily Pear
Mid 2020 saw us in lockdown, 5 kilometres, masks and limited contact. My art had stalled with procrastination and no motivation.
Then I tried drawing the same thing every day, thanks to…
struthless drawing advice – a 10 minute YouTube talk.
So, what to draw?
Well, it needed to be ‘easy’ … simple shapes, no eyes in the ‘right’ place or fingers or bilateral symmetry or 3-point perspective.
I decided on PEARS… because they are simple blobs, and they rot… there’s no complication – easy, quick and fun. Scribbling and splashing paint around without hurdles. For me, it proved to be the best way to overcome the blockage.
So, from 6 August 2020 for two months, I drew PEARS. I did them in a 1980’s A3 hardbound library catalogue of children’s literature. There are over 90 pages of PEARS, all with a text background.
Then, as my interest waned, I noticed I was keen to get on with other things. Who’d have thought drawing pears every day would lead to some consistent creativity and a lot of fun.
I tried so many techniques, used so many media, made many people laugh and even approach boredom with yet more pears in their inbox. It went from appear, to compare, to repair and despair, with babushka, zen and disintegration pears. There’s the adventurous pear, the golden pear and also no pear at all. There’s even a pair of them (in Collingwood colours of course!).
Here’s a selection from my 90+ pages of daily PEARS.
