Everyday number 27. Self-Portrait with Crayons (and no mirror…) I’ve been looking at portraits by Chantal Joffe, very interesting. She did a series of 365 self-portraits over a year in 2018 (see video here). I think portraits are one of the most fascinating art forms, and we always have ourselves to draw. The picture above didn’tContinue reading “Self-Portrait with Crayons”
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Wake Up!
Everyday number 26. In an attempt to draw a happy person… this pensive, inward-looking, seemingly preoccupied one arrived. Hmmm. If all art, especially portraits, are self-portraits, then I say to myself that I need to get out of this labyrinth and Wake Up! I wanted to redo this, again and again if necessary, but I tendContinue reading “Wake Up!”
When Continents Expire
Everyday number 25. “When Continents Expire”, another first line from Emily Dickinson. And when they do expire? There will still, I think be roses, like the first ones that are appearing in our small garden in Madrid at the moment. Two yesterday, three today, by the end of the week there will be eighty or so,Continue reading “When Continents Expire”
His Mind like Fabrics of the East.
Everydays numbers 23 and 24: ‘His Mind like Fabrics of the East’ and ‘We can but follow to the Sun’ are both first lines of poems by Emily Dickinson. Most of the picture comes first, then I find the first line from an index of her poems, and the picture changes a little to accommodate it,Continue reading “His Mind like Fabrics of the East.”
Bed Time
Everyday number 22. Drawn last night. Simply bed time after a long day. Last night at 11pm I was too tired to contemplate drawing anything, but this ‘drawing a day’ has become almost irrepressible. This took minutes, but it is still worth an awful lot to me. Even the simplest drawing has something to learn from,Continue reading “Bed Time”
Notes from Ben 