I seem to have gotten into “creative mode” since the decision to work with the celery root as a subject. This may have to do with the deliberate choice of something I knew I would struggle with. The challenge seems to have woken me up, which I like. I’ll have to take care not to […]
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Different angles
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 […]
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Draw and select
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 […]
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Exhibition Visit: Mike Kelley
I visited the Mike Kelley Exhibition at Moma PS 1, Long Island City, New York. I think this was the first time that I deliberately went to an exhibition of modern art. My elder sister had notified me about Mike Kelley’s exhibition in New York. I had never heard of this artist and looked him […]
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Approaching Part 5
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 […]
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