I have this nice metal dip pen which I have had for years but I never really got to using it much. I had found it to be a pain in the ass to have to draw with such care and all, since the metal nib is so fine. Maybe I was really stupid, but it never occurred to me to switch to a bigger nib (!) and also, very importantly, to hold the pen further away from the nib so I could make free, loose lines. HA! I experimented with a bigger nib which I also had for a while, all rusty by now. But it worked fine and I think I am in love with this new found expression! Here are a few drawings I made of ....what else but my favourite subject matter - children and animals!
And then I couldn't wait to put my new found expression to good use. So I made this portrait of my nephew Jensen, who is not even a month old but the way he moves his arms tell me that he is going to be a great dancer one day!
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Dear Gylan,
welcome to this world.
Mummy,
Daddy,
Granny,
Grandpa...
everyone loves you.
But then, you will also see that the world can be unfair and ugly.
You will be angry,
scared,
sad...and maybe... lonely.
But you will be BRAVE.
Because you will know that Life is so short...
and that nothing matters anymore....that no purest gold in the world will buy you happiness,
friendships,
and LOVE.
When you grow up,
you will see it.
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Sometime in August this year, I made many drawings from looking at the photographs by Zoltan Jokay. I have posted them in my previous posts. Here are the rest of them that didn't work for me then, when I drew them, so I left them in the pile of papers, waiting to be recycled. As I went through the pile a week ago, I realised that these spoke to me:). I scanned them, then added some (minimal) effects to them on Photoshop. Here they are.
Windy Day
Boy
Boy
Alice
Summer Garden, Boy
Summer Garden, Old
Girl, before
Girl, after
Deer
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