Une gallerie de portraits

 Au deuxième soir du symposium Urban sketchers suisse à Zuoz, alors que l'on sortait les carnets à dessin après le dessert, j'ai eu un moment de panique : je ne savais plus croquer les personnes ! Heureusement j'étais juste rouillé : après quelques dessins complètement ratés je me suis échauffé et j'ai pu finir mon carnet avec des instantanés des participants.

Tous les dessins sont sur un petit carnet reçu en cadeau au symposium international de Lisbonne, avec mon stylo plume Sailor Fude de mannen.

Stillsitzen

Stillsitzen

Sketchcrawl im Seebähnli

                  

       

Personen Potpourri

Personen zu zeichnen ist eine sehr flüchtige Angelegenheit. Man muss schnell und unauffällig agieren. So entstehen meist ineinandergreifenden Portraits, weil die Zeit zu kurz für die ganze Person war. Aber eigentlich mag ich diese flüchtige Art zu zeichnen, auch wenn mal ab und zu was in die Hosen geht. Entstanden sind diese Portraits in Cafés, oder während Zugfahrten. 

Croatian Faces

I'm right now in Zagreb, Croatia spending the holidays with my wife and her family. I find that every place in the world has its own graphic quality - the marks of a culture as seen through the way that people adorn their world, the mustaches, the wrinkles on a face, a hair style or length of eye lashes. These drawings were drawn on my iPhone, using the Zen Brush app. 

iPhone Portraits

Here are some recent portraits I created, of people in Geneva. I originally got an old iphone not to make calls, but to surreptitiously draw when commuting to and from work on the NYC subway. I enjoy working within the limitations of this tiny screen and an app (Zen Brush is the one I prefer). It makes me think of what Picasso said, that "forcing yourself to use restricted means is the sort of restraint that liberates invention. It obliges you to make a kind of progress that you can't even imagine in advance." I enjoy the discovery and play that occurs when quickly trying to capture the spirit and appearance of people as they idle or walk past, lost in their personal world.