Drawing Chicken

09 April, 2009

Sketches

Just two sketches I did.

22 February, 2009

Inspiration... Imagination... Spontanuity.

These are three feather and ink drawings I did one after another in a space of about fifteen minutes because of the incredible joy I got from improvising with a wonderful violinist on Friday. She truly gave me so much to think about - and I would like to thank her tremendously!

This technique basically involves dripping water on a special kind of paper and then letting the feather trace its inky path through it, disolving in the watery parts. One feels such freedom doing this! There is no room for error but plenty of room for imagination! One must feel the form of the paper and carve out a figure. The best part is when you tilt the paper and the ink and water roll around creating unexpected lines, twists and turns, and the paper knows how to manipulate the artwork to create the most delicate and beautiful of harmonies!!! How like the experience of improvisation on a string instrument... :-)

07 February, 2009

Close-Up

The Highwayman

This is one of my favourite poems of all time. It just makes your heart skip a beat. I believe everyone should read it. You should - and you won't regret it... even if you aren't the greatest fan of poetry.

27 January, 2009

Concerto for Viola, String Orchestra and Harpsichord - Capriccio - by Ronald Royer

This is a truly exquisite piece that I listened to on Friday and it prompted me to invent a new drawing style. It is a piece based on Baroque music (specifically Bach) and will soon be performed in concert.
The capricio is a fast piece with a solo viola - which is wonderful as we violists never get enough credit for starting the "violin" family (That's right violins!!! And it should be called the viola family!!!). Such a BEAUTIFUL piece!!!

I believe this is the 21st picture in my musical illustration series that I started this summer.

Also... I would like to take the time to mention that today is Mozart's birthday!!! :-D Always wondered what he would write if he were alive in our century...

12 January, 2009

Suite Hébraïque Rhapsody

This is a beautiful piece for viola/violin and piano (I think everyone should hear it!). And funny thing - my friend Melody helped me quite a lot on the backgroud, which represents the "piano" accompaniment in the piece, and at the moment we will soon be playing a duet in which she will be playing the piano, and I the viola! :-)

Note: this picture is drawn in pen on blue paper and the white is pencil for highlights

03 January, 2009

Vase Mystery

At night, I was lying in bed and happened to glance over at a vase full of flaming red flowers in my room. In the darkness, the silhouette looked like a beautiful girl with her head down and with her hair flying behind her. I quickly drew a sketch of her in bed so I wouldn't forget what I'd seen and then fell asleep. Later, I altered this image to my liking (for one thing, the dark vase I morphed to appear to be a dress). The shape of the flowers I kept, but only the outline - for the hair. This is not the first time something I've seen has struck me as mysteriously like something else, however, I believe I have never yet been as intruiged by such a happening...

01 January, 2009

Tartini - Concerto pour violin et orchestre en la mineur

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BivOfAPUl9w&feature=related <--- This music is saintly. It is probably the purest music I have ever heard (other than perhaps Lacrimosa) - simply sounds like the singing of angels at heaven's gates. It is impossible to convey the beauty of this music through words, yet I have tried to do so through this picture (I believe all know the expression "a picture is worth a thousand words")

26 December, 2008

Concerto for Violins, Strings, and Continuo - Giuseppe Tartini

Another addition to the classical music illustration series...

This picture illustrates the beautiful Violin Concerto in A, just one of the 125 violin concertos that Tartini composed. The music really did remind me of a magnificent ballet. It was light and sincere so that it spoke to the listener, a characteristic I simply adore in this composer's works.

05 December, 2008

Important Notice

Today was the date of Mozart's death. He died at 12:05 am.

03 December, 2008

The City

This picture was a fun little experiment I did. It was actually drawn with a leaky pen and tweaked in Photoshop.

03 November, 2008

Picture I Drew Today at Lunch with my Friend Melody

18 October, 2008

Suite Hébraïque Rhapsody

Did this on Thursday. I was feeling sort of mysterious and sad so that is what the picture reflects. Plus, I was playing "Suite Hébraïque Rhapsody" through in my head. This picture is therefore another illustration for it.

16 October, 2008

My Idol...

Okay, I admit that this is a REALLY old picture but I just remembered it. Can you guess who it is? I'll give you a few hints:

-He lived in the 18th century

-Played viola (like me!) as well as violin

-Wrote his first piece at 4, his first symphony at 7 and his first opera at 12

-There is a saying that God's angels play Bach but in secret they prefer this composer...

-He wrote a Requiem which is considered to be the best piece ever written

-He died at 35 years old of unknown cause and no one knows where he was buried

-He sometimes called himself Trazom

-His wife's name is Constanze

-Everyone has heard of him

-(this is the give-away if you haven't realized already...) His name starts with the letter M

08 October, 2008

To the One Who Inspired Me with His Violin Today...

10 September, 2008

After a Dream (A French Song)

This is a beautiful musical piece that is sung in French or is played on viola (I'm playing it now). It is about a woman who wakes up and finds that the dream in which she is reunited with her love is a lie. She desperately begs the dream to return, asking at the end "Reviens! Reviens! Reviens!!!". This piece is very emotional and I tried to convey that in this portrait of the woman.