Posted by Birgit Zipser on February 1st, 2011
Subjected to the first exercise from Nicolaides ‘The Natural Way to Draw’, I drew the contours of the icicles following Nicolaides instruction:
Focus your eyes on some point – any point will do – along the contour of the model. Place the point of your pencil on the paper. Imagine that your pencil is touching the model instead of the paper. Without taking your eyes of the model, wait until you are convinced that the pencil is touching that point on the model upon which your eyes are fastened. Then move your eye slowly along the contour of the model and move the pencil slowly along the paper. As you do this, keep the conviction that the pencil is actually touching the contour. Be guided more by the sense of touch than by sight. THIS MEANS THAT YOU MUST DRAW WITHOUT LOOKING AT THE PAPER, continuously looking at the model.
First, using plants as my models, I was surprised, during the exercise, at the affection I felt for their leaves. Next, I tried the trees outside the window, and then the icicles suspended from the roof.
Being, so far, more of a photographer than a draftsman, I took a snapshot of this wintry scene.
Posted by Birgit Zipser on December 11th, 2010
Celebrating a promising event in my life by posting still another painting of South Manitou, freshly retouched. Same format as before.
Posted by Birgit Zipser on October 1st, 2010
The only reality portrayed here is the shape of South Manitou island.
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Posted by Birgit Zipser on August 1st, 2010
61 x 45, oil on birch panel
Do you see sky or water?
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Posted by Angela Ferreira on June 30th, 2010
Title: Peace of Mind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 101×76 cm
Posted by Birgit Zipser on June 27th, 2010
Seeing the mist rolling in from the lake over the big dune,
coming closer, enveloping,
until finally, only feeling surrounded by grey.
Posted by Tree Smith on June 21st, 2010
I thought it would be nice to share some photos of the sky on the one day of the year when we have the most time to look at it.
I took a series of photos of the sky over a period of about three months quite some time ago and I hope to return to the subject again one day. I would love to see these printed large and on a wall for people to get lost in.
How many of us look to the sky for a message of some sort? Happy Solstice.
