Somewhere over the Rainbow

Rainbow over Esslingen

ICE to Mannheim

256 kmph ....!                                    ....fast

Lake Como from Lezzeno

A quick drawing of Lago di Como from Lezzeno 
in a sketchbook Laura gave to me as a leaving present

Happy Easter Monday

Profile and Facing Portraits

Both profile and frontface portrait compositions

are often difficult to represent as 3D form.

It is important to suggest shading with 

tonal areas, colour or gestural marks.

Happy New Year ....A Good Start

Always good to start a New Year on a positive note ....

So what better way than going to see the Anselm Kiefer

retrospective in Baden Baden at the Frieder Burda Museum.

Here is a link to the work in the exhibition.

http://www.museum-frieder-burda.de/Ausstellungen.9.0.html

The monumental scale of his work just does not translate on photographs.

The sculptural thickness of the oil and acrylic paint on lead and canvas

strewned with poppyheads and sunflowers have to be seen "in the flesh" with

Lead Planes, Submarines and and Ladders all together in this span of Kiefers
astonishing output.

Real Art !!

Life Studies in Marker and conte

The following life drawings show a set of studies done 
over a period of an hour.

I used a dry wipe marker pen on brown parcel paper 
and then used a white conte chalk to create the strong 
one point lighting.

I prefer drawing on  parcel paper ( dull side ) as its takes 
materials such as characoal and markers so well. 
The mid tone brown has a warm contrats to the bleach 
starkness of White cartridge.

The nap of the paper allows for great chalk and pastel overlay.