Shadows - or silhouettes - can be strangely shaped. If it's a cloudy day, wave a torch around to see this ordinary phenomenon!
Organic shapes can fit strangely into geometrical shapes, eg https://www.etsy.com/
Or, geometrical shapes can be combined in "strange" ways - overlapping, intersecting, distorting, reflecting - to make "strange" patterns - https://www.
Tribal art is full of shapes that look strange to us. https://oronzohistorian.
Ordinary objects gathered closely together will make a strange outline or shadow - http://www.
Another aspect of the phenomenon of "strangeness" is when something is seen as very new and very different - lots of examples in architecture and furniture, for instance. Or fashion, which can also have elements that make no practical sense, or are overly elaborate and make us uneasy.
Strangeness in the natural world, how does that arise? Probably when things look unnatural, eg plants (or their shadows) that have the characteristics of animals (spiky thistles?) or solid trees that have huge branches that twist and turn and even grow into each other.
So, let's see the results....
So, let's see the results....
From Sue S - Invasion of the spiky monsters? It’s wild out here in Blythburgh!
From Judith - Strange shapes below tables in Brecon!
From Carol - strange shapes on an over ripe banana which were changing as I was drawing it. So much to see I don’t think I’ll every look at a banana the same way again.
From Najlaa - Unusual table.
From Joyce - mason’s marks from Tewksbury Abbey. The marks identified which mason had dressed the stone so that they could be paid. Apparently identical marks can also be seen at Gloucester Cathedral.
From Hazel - The shadows of the cherry tree, projecting onto the grass, make wonderfully bold and strange shapes. Drawn with pen and coloured pencil.
From Sue B - New York skyscrapers…from a photograph I took a few years ago
From Mags - Continuing the Drawing Water theme from last week : the strange shapes made by a permanently dripping tap
From Ann - Strange shapes as ...doodles...a watercolour and a collage.
From Janet B - enlarged rainwater droplets on a grey table
From Sylvia - Garden furniture looking down from bathroom window. Fairly implausible - back to the elipses!
From Janet K - creating strange shapes trying different patterns for a medieval type sleeve. Pattern is 15 cm long, the bit on the right is the lining. It's for a puppet costume.
From Jo - some views of a very strange-shaped object, although perfectly functional if you have the right sized cards. It's a stereoscopic viewer found in a drawer
From MC - Walking in my local park during lockdown I really enjoyed seeing the big old plane trees with their long branches that reach across the road and their lumpy trunks and twisty branches. A "strange" sight, those organic yet alien shapes. I loved drawing them but had to pay the forfeit of losing my favourite inktense pencil, the dark brown one. It was easy to replace, and I also bought an indigo replacement for an earlier hostage to fortune.
And a couple of new colours, including Ionian Green, which looks grey until the water hits it -
This is the entire spread, the result of another trip to the park a few days later; I'm not happy with the placement of the tree on the left -
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