Author Archives: patriciakarsten

To prepare a more considered line drawing, I made some preparatory blind line drawings, as suggested in the course material. They were all done very quickly. After the first, I found the resemblance extremely low and thought this might be due to a too nervous approach with too much movement. In the next two drawings, […]

I made several drawings of the celery root on four sheets of paper, all from a slightly different angle. I tried to depict the complex pattern of the core root and the dinted surface of the object. These drawings were a real challenge. The amount of concentration required was enormous and I had problems with […]

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. (Lucian Freud) I started my first sketches with the idea that I’d like to focus on plants and flowers, but would also want to try out fruit and vegetable to see how I got along with these different […]

Now this is the second try to write down my reflections on the topic. I have experienced some days going from sheer panic to slight relief, because I had accidentally deleted the database of this blog. The entire work of 2 years was gone… but thanks heaven, my website provider does regular database backups, and […]