"the world is full of magic things,
patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
- W.B Yeats
i'm off on a little travel...
see you soon!
morning wonder
i am busy packing,
off for a little holiday in Switzerland to spend some precious time
with my family.
to be honest, the packing is a little confusing,
it's suppose to be summer in the Northern Hemisphere
but it's been rainy and cold.
and here it feels like summer!?
go figure ;)
how magical do our aloes look?
this one in the pot is blooming for the first time,
happy and proud!
bzzzz...
i'm still experimenting with my drawing,
i will be for a long time.
here is the beginning of what is meant to be a bumble bee
more like a fly in the first attempt...
more of a bumble bee this time
i am loving drawing something else than a face,
somehow i feel freer doing it,
not as compelled to put in all the details.
learning
it seems i can finally call these two paintings done!
i have been working on them for a long time,
they are oil on board so they do take a long time to dry
but also i've been experimenting with a lot of different layers
and techniques on them.
not my usual way to work but i have loved experimenting,
learning new things and most of all,
staying with it, as uncomfortable as it was at times...
it's been a fantastic practice and i hope i can take a lot
of what i've learnt forward into my next paintings.
back at it...
i'm still drawing...
doing the same exercises.
30 seconds quick drawings,
than 1 minute to 5 minutes.
below are some quick 30 seconds faces
and then i went to 20 minutes drawings.
the idea is not to add more but rather to focus on certain area of the face,
to say more with less...
as much as i understand the concept intellectually
i can't seem to put it into practice...
i get going with the drawing and soon get completely caught up in
adding ALL the details as oppose to editing, which is really what
i would love to do!
so it's back to the drawing board as they say...
oh and below it's Picasso turned Pope Jean-Paul II :)
weiiiiiird!!!
day trip
i love that we can take a 90 minutes drive
inland from our tropical coast and experience a completely
different climate/season.
last week we took a day trip into the late autumn,
early winter landscape of the Kwazulu Natal Midlands.
a real treat for all the senses.
at the drawing board...
i bunked art this morning...
i just felt like spending time in my own studio.
when i told Dee i wasn't coming in she told me to make it count ;)
so i did!
i spent the morning doing drawing practice,
drawing, after drawing, after drawing.
quick sketches then slightly longer ones.
it was tough,
but hey... only practice will make progress no?
