Watercolour fog wheat improvisations
There is a lot to learn yet. ...
There is a lot to learn y...
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Life drawing September 2021
Posing is also an art. I‘m very grateful to these gorgeous models! Sihl13 is a space where cool things can happen, ideas can manifest and new concepts can be explored. Check it: https://sihl13.ch ...
Posing is also an art. I‘...
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Life drawing April 2021
Gorgeous atmosphere in the room. Gorgeous models. Thanks Magnus, Adrian, Magda and Moritz! Sihl13 is a space where cool things can happen, ideas can manifest and new concepts can be explored. Check it: https://sihl13.ch ...
Gorgeous atmosphere in th...
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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 t...
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Watercolour excercises – sailboats
Lockdown demands new practices. ...
Lockdown demands new prac...
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Watercolour book of gestures
Lockdown demands new practices. ...
Lockdown demands new prac...
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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
Monochrom studies are very useful to practice light balances. ...
Monochrom studies are ver...
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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. Sihl13 is a space where cool things can happen, ideas can manifest and new concepts can be explored. Check it: https://sihl13.ch ...
The pencil sketches were ...
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Sketching after the second lockdown
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 some...
After some weeks pause be...
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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? ...
The potential ima...
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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. ...
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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 difficul...
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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 ma...
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Manuela & Janet
Janet 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. Dokumentarfilm über Janet Haufler, Regie: Manuela Trapp:https://vimeo.com/ondemand/janethaufler Janet Haufler from Recycled...
Janet Hauf...
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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. You also experience certain failures, (it's worth remembering: "live"!), until you realize...
In a life drawing session...
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Life drawing teaches a lot about oneself
Portraying a living model, in the end, tells more about oneself than about the one portrayed. 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...
Portraying a living model...
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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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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...
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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 s...
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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...
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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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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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