A few days ago I read chapter 1 of Gombrich’s The Story of Art. This book, which I bought as part of the reading list for the drawing course in 2013 (it has been removed since then), was a real surprise to me. I must admit that I never found the time to start reading […]
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Primitive woodcarving
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Drawing skills: Inktense coloured pencils
I bought my Inktense pencils a while ago, after I read in the student forums that people were so amazed by them. I hadn’t really had the time to explore these until now. At the occasion of my review of part three, I made a sunset cloudscape drawing using Inktense coloured pencils. I was dissatisfied […]
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Card players
I wanted to overcome the problem of limited access to groups of people which I might draw by searching for photos on the web, then drawing from a photo. I had a spontaneous idea to search for “card players”, and was surprised that practically nothing else but paintings came up. The one I immediately recognized […]
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What else
Today I was outside for a walk in the evening, it was already dark. I came by a tree that was entirely glowing in red light before the background of high-rise office buildings and the dark, cloudy sky. It looked wonderful and I took some pictures with the camera of my mobile phone. Red tree […]
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Reflections at the end of part III
I completed assignment 3 with the A3 drawing of the view, but I did not perceive that drawing as a finished work or as the endpoint in a series. It rather felt like “another unfinished, moderately successful attempt”. I like about the drawing that it maintained some of the freshness of the early sketches. Areas […]
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Some practice on my own
I went outside during lunchtime and visited the UN garden. It’s a nice place midtown New York with a backyard terrace build right above the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive, facing the East River. So it offers a nice view over the river, with Williamsburg Bridge to the right and Ed Koch Bridge to Queens on […]
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Ending the pause!
I can’t believe that it’s already September. The official end of my pause from OCA was by the end of April, but due to relocating to New York and all the associated stress I simply wasn’t able to reserve time and space for coursework earlier. Now things have settled a bit. I have a room […]
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Breaking the pause
After two months off the drawing course, I can wait no longer… I’m not officially resuming coursework yet, but I intend to gradually find my way back into the course. The past two months were intensely filled with working on the master’s dissertation. It is a quantitative study and involves lots of statistics. I’ve completed […]
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Taking a break from OCA studies
I have now completed the most tasks of this project, landscape drawing. There are still three research points to do and possibly another attempt at the large, final drawing. But I will take a break now from OCA studies in order to complete my Master’s studies with the Open University. I hope this will be […]
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Miscellaneous: Edgelands
This is a preliminary note for myself because I would like to explore the Edgelands idea further when the time comes. Edgelands is the title of a new post on the We Are OCA blog by José Navarro, and it is also the title of a price-winning photography book. The concept is about “urban abandonment” […]
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