Portraits of some good friends.
Portraits of March
by Vander Lemes | Jun 11, 2024 | All, Portraits, Watercolours
Portraits
Portraits of March
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.
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.
Don‘t take pictures of others without permission
Just another after-lunch scene
…I used to start with the eyes 3
Everything comes by itself, the mouth, the curve of the neck, even the hands…
…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)
…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…