Once I accepted that much of observation is really about memory, I felt emboldened to draw birds as they flew past me. Here are a few recent examples.
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| 03-12-22-hawk |
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| 03-23-22-ducks |
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| 03-11-22-grackles |
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| 03-20-22-heron01 |
Whitch is more real? Observation ore memory? What if there is no difference at all? I look out the window and see the jackdaws landing in the meadow, looking for food, and the birds make me so happy that I look for a long time, and then I say to myself you have to draw this. But the birds have already flown away again. And with the pencil in my hand, a few light strokes, right and wrong strokes, and suddenly I see the birds on the paper again. I think it was Ellsworth Kelly who said: sometimes I see something first and then I paint it, and sometimes I paint it first and then I see it. Best wishes, bon voyages, happiness and well-being!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant Klaus! Thank you for the Ellsworth Kelly quotation. One of my favorite artists.
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