Heads, apples, and apple cheeks
I can barely believe it myself, but another week has already passed! Drawing and painting didn't come easily this week, so I resorted to doing what requires little thought: drawing weird characters. It works like this:
Grab a nice big sketchbook (like these two A4 ones from Talens below) and fill the pages completely with random splatters using paint or markers. Don't overthink it, and don't spend too long on it.
Something like that. Then grab a good marker or crayons or whatever you feel like, and draw faces on the splatters. How I do it: I look at a splatter for a while, and then (I can't explain it any other way) I SEE what face it is, or what face it should be, and then I draw it.
The post-it — to cover up what didn't work out — is a must-have!
It's a great way to break out of your comfort zone, because the faces are always different than if you hadn't started with a splatter. It's also nice – if you're already working uncomfortably – to use materials you don't often use. For example, I also drew with Neocolor II crayons here.
Also fun: first frantically scratch hairstyles onto the splatters with crayons, and ONLY THEN figure out what the face should be. It helps a lot to do it in a sketchbook, because a sketchbook (I've said this before) puts less pressure on what you create. If I start on a nice piece of paper, I always feel like it has to turn out well, and if it has to turn out well, you can no longer work freely.
Just look at all these free-form figures! I recreated a few of them on the iPad:
Here's what else I did this week (besides working for LUBACH):
I visited the old ammunition bunkers in Soesterberg.
Walking there is like being in The Last of Us.
Opposite the bunkers is the Hermit's Cave, in the middle of a maze, so it takes a while to find it. The structure dates from 1883 and inside, a hermit awaits you. Quite creepy, even if he's made of stone.
This morning, I sent Ruben up the tree to help me pick apples. Here you see him disappearing among the leaves:
There were many, many beautiful apples on the branches!
Here I am admiring the harvest.
Look at that! So this coming week, I'll be busy with apples, using my new WECK machine. See you next week!
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