Posing is also an art. I‘m very grateful to these gorgeous models! Sihl13 is a space where cool things can happen, ideas can manifest and new concepts can be explored. Check it: https://sihl13.ch
I enjoy when I can grab the character of that precise moment… more than the results, the act of drawing and painting live, right there, together with others… this is the real magic for me. It’s very difficult to describe the mental state when I’m...
Gorgeous atmosphere in the room. Gorgeous models. Thanks Magnus, Adrian, Magda and Moritz! Sihl13 is a space where cool things can happen, ideas can manifest and new concepts can be explored. Check it:...
Hesitation after this long pause ist evident. But it’s very pleasant to achieve a sort of “zen status“ while painting. Sihl13 is a space where cool things can happen, ideas can manifest and new concepts can be explored. Check it:...
The pencil sketches were drawn live. Colours were added later. There is not the same magic and we notice it in the results. Sihl13 is a space where cool things can happen, ideas can manifest and new concepts can be explored. Check it:...
After some weeks pause because of the Lockdown in Switzerland, I could finally enjoy another life drawing session. This is definitely not like riding a bicycle. After a while without practice I noticed the hesitation in my hands. Though, there’s something very...
Parliament approved marriage for all in December 2020. However, a right-wing conservative committee has launched a referendum against it.The right of being able to marry is not just a symbolic gesture for same sex couples, it should also give rainbow families stronger...
The potential imaging ability of random blots: The human tendency to interpret natural phenomena figuratively is probably as old as human language.Sedimentation evokes images in and from Stones. The small-scale faults create surreal, gorge-like mountain scenery. Is...
This is a hommage to Mary Gartside and her studies, published more than 200 years ago: „an Essay on Light and Shade“, London 1805.The path to the abstraction in the beginning of the 20th century was paved with uncountable such...
The main difficulty in portraying the human figure is that we carry in our mind very strong representations of preconceived symbols, and every time we program ourselves to draw a hand, face or the human body, these symbols come to our mind and we end up falling into...
Paper: Hahnemühle Anniversary Edition 425g/m2 300 x 400 mm Acid free Paper: Hahnemühle Anniversary Edition 425g/m2 300 x 400 mm Acid free Paper: Hahnemühle Anniversary Edition 425g/m2 300 x 400 mm Acid free Janet Haufler zählt zu den wichtigsten...
. Después Plasson se volvió hacia Bartleboom y dijo de golpe- Y vos…, ¿qué estudiáis vos con todos esos instrumentos vuestros tan divertidos?Bartleboom sonrió.- Dónde termina el mar.Alessandro Baricco, Oceano Mare
This time I dared not to sketch before painting. It demands much more looking at the shadows and seeing them! That‘s an amazing experience. Though, at the last pose, I couldn‘t resist the temptation to draw her silhouette in one single line from toes to head as though...
Iuri, Zé Carlos & Vanda Iuri Children’s and Adult’s faces are not as easy to draw. Age matters. Some marks aren’t so visible on their faces are in older people’s faces. It was really hard to grab my grand-nephew’s face and I think I didn’t get it yet. It’s not...
In a life drawing session you experience the anxiety, the risk, the vitality of working “live” and, in the act, you trigger a much wider range of possibilities and choices than working from photographs. You also experience certain failures,...
Portraying a living model, in the end, tells more about oneself than about the one portrayed. I think that the need I have to draw the human figure and to learn how to portray it, is perhaps a desire to get closer to the other and the drawing gives me that...
SONY DSC „Plasson: no need to look at the sitter. Everything comes by itself, the mouth, the curve of the neck, even the hands… but fundamental thing is to start from the eyes, do you see, and this is where the real problem lies, the problem that drives me mad,...
“Colors float with this technique, often unpredictable and uncontrollable. We will try to learn how to enjoy the chaos water provides, and see it as an adventure which can give new input for future creativity. After a bit of practice, this technique can become a...
Wedding 29,09.2012 „Plasson: it happens that all the rest just follows, it‘s as if all the other pieces slip into place around that initial point by themselves, there‘s not even any need to (stop)Bartleboom: There‘s not even any need…“ Alessandro Baricco, Oceano...
Richy convincing a friend Richy convincing a friend A Model from the Sunday‘s magazine „Plasson: when I painted people‘s portraits, I used to begin with the eyes. I would forget all the rest… because once you have drawn the eyes (stop)Bartleboom: what happens...
. PLASSON – Éste es el problema: ¿Dónde empieza el mar?Bartleboom permaneció en silencio.Iba y venía el sol entre una nube y otra. Era el vento del norte, siempre el mismo, el que organizava el silencioso espectáculo. El mar continuaba imperturbable recitando...
Drawing a living model is something special. You have, before your eyes, someone who also observes you and opposes you, another person; and this inhibits, demands from you a new way of attention. When you stand before someone to register his image, both the model and...
Life drawing is not simply drawing a human figure, something you can do from other drawings, from a photograph or from memory, alone in your home, regardless of time, place, or the clothes you are wearing; at life drawing, as the name already says, you are in front of...
The act of looking at someone in silence, carefully observing the shapes and letting the thoughts between you and the model flow is an exercise of discovery, discipline, concentration, knowledge, and the effect of this practice appears not only in the final drawing,...
Someone said once, that “action brings inspiration“. Whenever I don‘t know what to paint, brushstrokes help me to unterstand what I feel like painting at the moment. Just do it!
Dunes.. where I‘ve never been…Landscape study.“En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles,en un pueblo junto al mar,poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memória ninguna.no leer, no sufrir, no escribir, no pagar cuentas, y viver...
„It takes a lifetime to learn to paint like a child“ Picasso.Quotation in Smibert, T. & Townsend, J.H. „Tate Watercolour Manual – Lessons from the Great Masters“
This exercise was about painting without sketching. I painted a photograph upside down, so that Í only focused on the shadows and surfares, no lines or objects. I was specially stunned when I turned the paper and I realized, that a had painted people without being...
