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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
The act of looking at someone ...
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