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Experimentations

All kinds of experimentations happened last week. I wanted a poem to illustrate in ink, an online friend suggested one by Langston Hughes, I did it using printing techniques with graphite on rice paper instead. I like the unusual effect that has resulted and I will...

Lockdown Drawings

If I don’t draw then I don’t feel very good. Drawing is almost like a pill that one takes everyday in order to feel good. However it took a while for me to remember that, what with distractions of Netflix and reading. Now it feels good to get back to HES...

Life Drawing

The life-drawing sessions I attend are very intensive. Three hours non stop drawing can sometimes seem like an army drill: One minute! 2 minutes! 5 minutes! 15 minutes! The model must have incredible energy as do some of the participants who draw really well and very...

Mish Mash

My illustrations for the week are varied. I tried drawing a seashell, which is more difficult than it looks. Then I played around with ink splotches on wet paper trying to recreate the surface of the moon. Moon surface or Chapati, you decide ;-)On Saturday, I did my...

A Drawing a Day.

The last week had me down and out with a cold. I have been wanting to do large compositions of my visit to Rome using paint. I tried it and failed (very last picture). But experimenting always leads to results eventually.  To do a drawing a day, I decided to do one...