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Drawing
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Drawing
Last drawing
When I started drawing, almost 3 years ago, I chose for pencil mainly to avoid the mess.
With paint you spend a lot of time preparing your canvas and when you finish it takes a lot of time to clean your brushes. And of course if you don’t you can’t use it the next time.
I didn’t [...] -
Drawing
The flow of time
It used to be that clocks where those big, almost statue like, objects standing in the middle of the room. Heavy weight pulling chains, moving cogs, moving time.
If you stared at them long enough you could see time flow.
Then came the electrical clock,
his minute hand jumping from minute to minute.
Time moving faster and faster.
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Drawing
Scraping, sliding and floating
Color pencils are made by mixing pigments with wax. How much pigment is used and how soft the wax is determents the quality of the pencil.
I have two color pencil sets. One set of 12 pencils are top of the range. With a soft wax and a lot of pigment they float about the paper. [...] -
Drawing
Blossom
I’ve been wanting to do a drawing like this for ages. But I just didn’t dare.
Actually I still don’t.
So I rushed it.
The big black part is to get it done fast.
Doing a drawing like this I understand the stories about the old masters drinking a lot of alcohol. At the moment I sure feel the [...] -
Drawing
Mixing colors blue through red
For my next drawing I want to mix some colors.
When I first thought of this drawing it seemed rather difficult. Yet also a nice design to try. Now I’ve been thinking about it a bit more I’m finding that it’s even more difficult then I imagined.
So I’m mixing a few colors to find the right [...] -
Drawing
Gaining heart
This was a very nice drawing to do.
Although I like to draw, it always took a large amount of effort to get myself to sit down and work on a drawing.
I always suspected that it had something to do with the autistic need for structure. But I couldn’t find a way.
On week days I could [...]
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