Feet are a masterpiece of engineering!
Podophilia
by Vander Lemes | Dec 13, 2020 | All, Figure, Watercolours
Figure
Podophilia
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...
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.
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.
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...
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 and...
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 are in front of...
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 in your life, in your relationships with others and with things.