Watercolours
Where does the ocean finish, Plasson?
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
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 head as though...
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 him. But I have a lot to learn about watercolour and portraying. This process has just begun.
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.
Don‘t take pictures of others without permission
Just another after-lunch scene
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 used to start with the eyes 3
Everything comes by itself, the mouth, the curve of the neck, even the hands…
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...
…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)