Life Drawing Sessions, Functions; "Hen's night" etcetera.

24/05/2021

05/10/2019

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=oFTxwQEACAAJ&dq=ways+of+drawing+royal+drawing+school&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwimh_v7j4TlAhVgILcAHZkxCusQ6AEIJzAA

Drawing is among the most direct ways of engaging with the world; a way not just of seeing, but of understanding what you see. At once inspirational and instructive, Ways of Drawing collects a rich variety of reflections on the craft from practicing artists, teachers, and writers.The book is divided...

27/09/2019

A bygone era.....of the analog.....

Found some nice little under appreciated gems in a second hand furniture store, by JS Watkins.

Drawings like these will become increasingly rare and coveted, because the skill employed is as ‘rare as hen’s teeth’.

When seeing a sketch at first I’m often pre-emptively apprehensive as the ex*****on is often poor, but these little drawings, kept ‘drawing me in’, were clear respite from the usual cursory mark making that blunts the senses into vulgarity of seeing-as-feeling.

One caveat on the n**e figure, Watkins’ could have tried a bit harder on the feet. Those toes are so vital to keep that figure balanced. It also adds to the ‘gestalt’ impression, the omission of which makes this factor food for thought as to how we read shapes, embodied....Watkins should have known better...probably considered the focal elsewhere or had a particular ‘problem’ to solve cognitively in his ex*****on strategies. But more than likely it’s just a common habit of all and sundry to overlook such details. I should buy it and complete, in true Hebborn-esque rapport for the process question at hand

28/01/2019

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s13GwrleTSk

A documentary featuring an interview with Eric Hebborn at his home in Italy. Eric Hebborn (1934-1996) was a British painter and art forger and later an autho...

21/01/2019

I will never feel the cold listening to John Elliott here. John’s appearance was a patina too and behind him is a drawing first and foremost whatever the medium. My teacher for a few rare years before he quit QCA. Great soul ignored in a stupid art world

17/10/2018

lol...”community standards”...artistic nudity not allowed

19/08/2018

Thomas Bock, ‘convict artist’ Tasmania Australia

What I find to be unique about Thomas is that, as a convict his access to the human figure for his modeling purposes would have been very limited to the point he relied on studying human form with his wife as model.

What’s special about that reliance (in my experience) is he develops a very personal knowledge of a specific figure, an event we rarely get to witness in the early modern era: circa 1800s. Stiff drafhtmanship becomes delicately sensible to the particular

Some of these drawings would be exquisite in any collection and last but not least, a must see also for their portrayal of ‘Tasmanian’ Aboriginal people.

Thanks to gallery Birmingham UK and TMAG.

17/07/2017

A priceless foundation for any design is 'solid' drawing skills / refined 'cognitive breathing' https://twitter.com/ft/status/886914393535074309

“Dolce & Gabbana unfiltered: Jo Ellison joins the superstar designers to talk Sicily, social media and Sophia Loren https://t.co/8PpnfVrXmI”

20/10/2016

Drawing by Dominic Ingres.

David Walsh's in "Hound in the Hunt" intends to speculate that some artists used optical devices to assist in drafting a composition.

There may well be instances of artists in the time of Vermeer and Ingres using such optical devices however what MONA and its organs for this exhibition have not demonstrated and can not envisage, (they quite arrogantly think they've found the right people to do it---they haven't got a clue) is what it takes to draw with-out optical devices.

It's possible optical devices would provide some surety where things 'are' and take some of the strain out of composing a complex composition but what it takes to 'See', to do it with 'life', no exo-skeletal device alone can bring you close to achieving the brilliance of interpretation in an Ingres drawing. It requires skill honed out of years of direct observation of all the formal qualities and quantities percieved and/or experienced. And it will take you in many directions in your personal 'cogntive breathing' with 'things' in the world.

Optical devices akin to mere copying with-out understanding 'the relationships' that constitute a given visual percept will only stunt your rendering. That severely stunted insight is very clearly on display at MONA's "Hound In the Hunt". [What Walsh wants to glean from this exhibition may become apparent in the next show the "Orgin of Art".]

Drawing like an Ingres is not for everyone but the empathy developed in patient observation and interpretation in general is a great tool for any aesthete and no optical device is necessary.

31/03/2016

Pleasure to the eye: Mid-tone paper pushed and pulled by darks and lights. 'Broad' forms or shapes first, line define secondarily but can be arbitrary. Art of seeing whole is art of "master draughtperson".

16/03/2016

"Hen's night" life drawing.

05/03/2016

Static and dynamic page. How many more treats does Klee have in his notebook? now online

http://www.kleegestaltungslehre.zpk.org/ee/ZPK/BG/2012/02/20/001/