With these series of mini portraits, I am trying different ways, markers, pastels, ink and brush. The goal is to simplify, to get the portrait in a few essential lines.
Avec ces séries de mini portraits, j’essaie différentes manières, feutres, pastels, encre et pinceau. Le but est de simplifier, de faire le portrait en quelques lignes essentielles.
It’s like jogging, but for the mind. I draw a series of portraits of the same person on post-it notes. The small size forces me to simplicity, going to the essential. I draw directly with markers with no construction lines, hoping to develop an automatism.
The model is Susanne Du Toit, a wonderful artist I discovered through the jkpp group.
C’est comme faire son jogging, mais pour l’esprit. Je dessine une série de portraits de la même personne sur des post-it. La petite dimension me force à la simplicité, à aller à l’essentiel. Je dessine directement aux feutres, sans lignes de constructions, en espérant développer un automatisme.
Le modèle est Susanne Du Toit, une artiste magnifique que j’ai connu grâce au groupe jkpp.
still waters
a frog hops
golden ripples
among the ooooh!
and ahahah!
and oulala!
a little voice says:
I like the putty tat!
A frog hops
the sun flickers
On ripples
On the pond
Dangling upside down
Gorging on cherries
I call you
My northern monkeys
translucent veils
iridescent ribbons
voluptuously undulating
deadly beauty
Big, wet, sad
Puppy eyes
Sigh, deeper sigh,
She knows to wait
For the brush to rest
in the water jar
to go run on the Heath
NaPoWriMo is National Poetry and Writing Month
This one for Maureen and her muse
In a tumultuous city
In a peaceful garden
In a transparent pond
Swims silently
A koi
NaPoWriMo is National Poetry and Writing Month
This one is for Aletha, the Queen of Kois
Herdysheperd tweets
Photos of lambs and ewes
From windy Scotland
Smile
In springless Montreal
NaPoWriMo is National Poetry and Writing Month
this one is for @herdysheperd 1 . I love looking at his tweets and photos of his ewes, lambs, dog in beautiful Scotland.
