April 2012
3 posts
Vladimirka´s Road
original painting:Isaac Levitan, Vladimirka´s road.
my study:
Hands
Probably one of the most enjoyable topic so far. Even though I found out that I do not know my hand as I though I did. Definitely not as the “back of my hand.”
Buildings
This time I´m going to post those two topics together.
Buildings. A well chosen topic. For me a very different experience to draw. I picked up ruler and a hard pencil, trying to keep all rules of perspective of the geometry so that it all makes sense. This result (below) was made bit by bit, each of the drawing moments were almost meditative, as I had to concentrate - quite a bit.
Small...
March 2012
2 posts
Birds
Again - at the first sight not so over-complicated topic, in the real world though.. a very different story about “easyness”. Nevertheless, I found it again very enjoyable and certainly learnt a lot by doing it. I´ve never painted birds with such an effort before and I certainly feel like I missed a lot. In the next row I might venture for colours, which would give the topic again a very...
Cups and dress design
Thanks to Pontenigra´s great idea to set up a habit of painting practises, this blog is going to be the documentation of my ´journey´ - through various topics and challenges, which will change each week.
Without a concise introduction, here are the first two for the start. Cups and dress design. Cups were a good beginning, especially if you imagine a hot tea inside, good reward for the job :)...
