Watercolour fog wheat improvisations
There is a lot to learn yet....
There is a lot to learn yet......
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Life drawing September 2021
Posing is also an art. I‘m very grateful to these gorgeous models!...
Posing is also an art. I‘m ver...
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Watercolour Leporello
Discover the charm of a leporello, a unique storytelling format that unfolds artistic narratives in an accordion-style book....
Discover the charm of a lepore...
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Life drawing May 2021
I enjoy when I can grab the character of that precise moment...
I enjoy when I can grab the ch...
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Life drawing April 2021
Experience innovation and creativity at Sihl13, where stunning models and vibrant atmospheres bring fresh ideas and concepts to life....
Experience innovation and crea...
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Watercolour excercises – sailboats
Lockdown demands new practices....
Lockdown demands new practices...
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Watercolour book of gestures
Lockdown demands new practices....
Lockdown demands new practices...
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Catching up after the break
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: https://sihl13.ch ...
Hesitation after this lon...
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Monochrome Landscapes
[gallery ids="4382,4392,4363,4393"] Monochrom studies are very useful to practice light balances. ...
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Life drawing home session
Lockdown demands new practices. ...
Lockdown demands new prac...
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playing with colors and old sketches
The pencil sketches were drawn live. Colours were added later. There is not the same magic and we notice it in the results....
The pencil sketches were drawn...
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Sketching after the second lockdown
[gallery ids="4355,4356,4354"] 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 rewarding when after...
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Marriage for all
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 legal protections. Today, same Sex copules have to call each...
Parliament approved marriage f...
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Sedimentation landscape
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 a landscape?...
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Colour blots
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 studies....
This is a hommage to Mary Gart...
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Hot cold hands & feet
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...
The main difficulty in portray...
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Quirophilia
The opposing thumb makes us unique, human. The proportions of human hands are fascinating. I like to admire them ...
The opposing thumb makes us un...
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Manuela & Janet
anet Haufler zählt zu den wichtigsten Performance-Künstlerinnen in Bern der letzten Jahrzehnte. Ihr feuerrotes Haar ist unvergesslich. Ich konnte sie leider nur ein einziges Mal auf der Bühne sehen. Ihre gigantische Präsenz ist genauso unvergesslich....
anet Haufler zählt zu den wich...
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Where does the ocean finish, Plasson?
. Después Plasson se volvió hacia Bartleboom y dijo de golpe- Y vos...
. Después Plasson se volvi...
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Dare not to sketch before
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...
This time I dared not to ...
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Children are not easy to portray
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 really...
Children’s and Adult’s faces a...
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The vitality of working „live“
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. ...
In a life drawing session you ...
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Don‘t take pictures of others without permission
Just another after-lunch scene ...
Just another after-lunch scene...
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Life drawing teaches a lot about oneself
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 possibility....
I think that the need I have t...
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…I used to start with the eyes 3
Everything comes by itself, the mouth, the curve of the neck, even the hands...
Everything comes by itself, th...
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Alla prima
“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...
“Colors float with this t...
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…I used to start with the eyes 2
„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) ...
„Plasson: it happens that all ...
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…I used to start with the eyes 1
when I painted people‘s portraits, I used to begin with the eyes. I would forget all the rest...
when I painted people‘s portra...
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Where does the ocean begin, Bartleboom?
. 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 sus salmos. Si tenía...
. PLASSON - Éste es el pro...
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Life drawing is something special
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...
Drawing a living model is som...
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Looking, seeing, posing, being silent, and just drawing
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...
Life drawing is not simpl...
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Observe the shapes and let the thoughts between you the model flow
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, but also...
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Learning from Turner
Whole chartLearning from Turner. Studies on sunset, color harmony and more. A nice exercise from book „Tate Watercolour Manual“ ...
Whole chartLearning from Turn...
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Visions of Pandora
Study starting from a monoprinted background. ...
Study starting from a monopri...
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More color less water
Landscape study: searching for a balance between water and color. It seems easy but it requires a lot of practice. ...
Landscape study: searching fo...
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Fast and furious
Another study, practicing with monoprints as a background. ...
Another study, practicing wit...
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Just do it!
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! ...
Someone said once, that “acti...
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Green land
Landscape study. Different washes with Shades of grey and green. ...
Landscape study. Different wa...
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This is not a red tree
Study on blottings. Red and Sepia.. ...
Study on blottings. Red and S...
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Creative blotting
In this study I used blots an a base for the trees. It seams simple, but it requires some practice to manage the random blotting. ...
In this study I used blots an...
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Let the brushes sing and dance!
„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“ ...
„It takes a lif...
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Tonal analysis
Tonal analysis based on Claude Lorrain. Another nice study from T.Milbert‘s Book! ...
Tonal analysis based on Claud...
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Sunset tree
Practicing different techniques: washed, dry brush, scraped ...
Practicing different techniqu...
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Streetcar stop
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...
This exercise was about painti...
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