For quite a while I've bee looking for a group to draw with, but didn't find any, so I created one.
This post is of a special session in which I posed,
The exercise was mainly drawing a model (me... :) on red and yellow.
We didn't have much time, so some drawings are on very wet paint, still, as a 'teacher', I am so proud at the result we produced, and I hope some of the creativity and fun we had comes through!
Hope you enjoy it as much as me, and a warm (colored red to yellow) thanks to all the participants for the contribution!
and to finish off, some pencil ones, (yea, I cheated by coloring the first two on the computer...)
Been doing a lot of drawing lately, but a textual post this time, SVP.
As the end of the world approaches, along with tectonic movements in my close vicinity, here are some lessons learnt in the past year.
Teaching is the best way to learn.
The more time passes, the more I appreciate the gift I got from my teachers, be it Naomi for Tai Chi, or Shir for the drawing. furthermore I realize how much teaching gave them a chance to re-examine their skills. hence I just started a drawing teaching adventure.
Any movement is good if you use it well.
Be it Job, Family, Location, A movement is a chance to wake up and see yourself bear (pardon the pun) before diving back in, did lots of it this year.
Friends are important.
Having someone to share your reflections, problems and just plain freestyle with is great,
And sometimes you receive such great gifts, in such a casual manner, that you can't even start expressing a thank-you for. (but thank you anyway :)
No risk, no gain.
When you finally take a risk your afraid of, you will probably either lose less than you imagined, or gain more than you expect, happens numerous times lately (mainly the latter).
Life is what happens to you when you'r busy making other plans.
Totally true (even if are shot by a madman in NYC)
So, these are the five, the two are animated poems I adore by Bill Collins:
Forgetfulness
Walking across the Atlantic
See you at the other side of the (yet another) end of the world.
When I was much older, I bought a small wacom-pad, and toyed with the idea of illustrating a children's book.
I came across these this week, and wanted to share em, talk about the ideas behindem, and dedicate this post to my friend Miranda who blogs about Paris to her Italian friends.
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There is a great children's poem by Yoram Taharlev, about...
A lady from Bezalel street, that decided to go out on a sunny day, with a small dog and a basket, and a flower at the shirt, And she said how lovely
Suddenly she sees a lamp at a shopping window, and says: just a lamp like this is what I am terribly missing!
So she comes out of the store, with a dog, and a basket, and a flower, and the lamp she was terribly missing, and says: how lovely
But than she sees a vase that she really misses in her apartment, she buys it
Now she has a vase she can decorate her house with...
And than a Mandolin, to entertain her friends,
And than a parrot in a cage, to sing to her when she is sad.
And than she is thirsty, buys juice, but everything falls and breaks,
and the parrot gets free, and sings for her... so she won't be sad...
Never got to finish it, but I really enjoyed the process and the ideas so much, I wanted to share it.
So here are some ideas I found interesting:
When looking for a visual I liked Carmen Miranda, since she has the basket on the head, and both hands are free to hold stuff.
Every page contains:
Her and all her possessions drawn
a photographed scenery
A small piece of text, so parents can read with their kids just a few words on each page.
Lots of white, so the drawing is part of page, and not just an illustration.
She always remains the same position, but all her objects change and grow all the time. (you can see at the last one she is dragging the lamp), so the life is in the consumption-objects.
Each object has a single color (that changes from page to page)
The idea was that the text-page will be black, but that the part in it that is in the illustration will be blue at the text-page as well.
And a naughty note: the vase turned to a boys-pop-group holding flowers (, and if you look carefully, the dog there is certainly a male as well.)
Hope you enjoyed this blast from the past!
Till nextime!
P.S.
Just found a lovely illustration with all the words here
