Waiting for Spring to Come

Just two little illustrations that I made a few weeks ago (for a pharmaceutial company that sells clinical nutrition). Nothing very special, but I never really made a similar illustration so it was a bit of an experiment, too... I used ballpoint to make a kind of a very light grisaille and then colored it with watercolor. Easy-peasy... Only, I didn't find any of my black ballpoint pens, so I had to use a blue one.

It's still very wintry over here and I'm so much longing for Spring and Summer.

A Very Old One

This is a very old pastel painting that I made well before university, sometime in 2001.
Actually, I'm not sure I still like it, but I think I do. Has quite a few faults.
Both of these are detail shots only. The entire one is 50 by 70 cms, and I made it on a deep red sheet of paper, that is what shows thru. I painted it on the floor. My then-boyfriend made photos of my progress. One day I might post those, too, 'cause I think they are funny.

Priya drew my attention to the fact that lately I haven't posted artworks of mine. Yeah, true. I haven't worked very much lately. But I'm sure that sooner or later I'll get back to making artworks (other than graphic design). Actually, this is a kind of a moral obligation of mine, as one of my teachers worded it. I dunno. Maybe it is. Well, if that's what I'm meant to do, then I'd better do it. I really don't know why I've been so lazy nowadays, but to be honest, I don't want to beat myself up about is. Still, I hope I'll soon get my act together.

An Old One

This is an old "academic-style" drawing that I made some two years ago at the university.
I'm about to attend the life-drawing class again. Life drawing is mandatory only in the first two years, but I think it could do good. I'm freaked out tho. Haven't drawn for a year and a half or so.
(charcoal on tinted paper, 50x70 cms, but this picture is cropped)

Inspiration: Paul Cézanne

I cannot say that Cézanne is my favourite painter. Frankly, I don't even think he was a very good draughtsman. I think he simply could not draw. But what he could, was paint!
What I feel for him, is some deep respect. I think his approach to painting is really what a painter's approach to painting should be. He was thinking in terms of specks of color. In my opinion, that's what a painting is all about. Specks of color.

I WANNA PAINT :)

I've been considering taking up painting for quite a while. Really.
What keeps me from really doing it, is some fear from mediocrity and amateurism.
But, I gotta start somewhere, so I decided to get over this debilitating fear. I kind of have to understand that at the outset, I, most possibly, won't be as good as I want to be, but that this fact simply should not make me stop or even worse, not start at all.
The reason I'm putting this out, is that I hope this would put some responsibilty on me, to really start. This post is like a promise to be kept. Well, I'm not very good at keeping promises, but nevertheless... The promise is there, and I have to keep it sometime.
I post some still lives from Paul Cézanne, that I find inspiring.

Inspiration: A Gem from Whistler

Taken from Mr Whistler's Ten O'Clock Lecture held in 1885, February 20th. Whistler is among my favourite painters. His approach to Art is really close to me.

The painting that kinda illustrates the quote is his Nocturne in Black and Gold.

You can click on the quote to enlarge it.

A Study on Lines in Space

Made for Anatomy Class (Human Anatomy and Studies in Space or something like that) about a year and a half ago.

A Poster

A poster that I made for an old movie, Andrzej Wajda's Landscape After the Battle, and some sketches for the same.
This again was a school assignment.

Inspiration: Drawings and Sketches by Degas

Full of restatements... and I think that's what makes them so beautiful.

Young Degas once met Old Dominique Ingres. Old Ingres told him he should draw and draw and draw. So, he would draw and draw and draw. To my greatest joy.

Some Croquis from our 2007 School Camp

These gesture drawings were made at our school's summer camp site back in 2007. The site is located in Tihany (Hungary) at a lake up on a hill. The little donkey was not part of the wildlife but the ducks were.
It's too bad we only went to this camp just once, at the beginning of our second year at university.

Inspiration: Degas

Just look at the rhythm. Needless to say, I love Edgar Degas.

It can be clearly seen, that the first painting is an earlier one.

In my opinion, this is a tendence that we see with great painters: as they grow older and more experienced, they don't bother to say more with more, instead, they manage to say more with less. And I think that is why the lower two are so fabulous. I just can't get enough of them.

I'm sure that sooner or later I'll take up painting.

Croquis, Again and Again

Some older ones from a year or so ago.
The upper one is made with charcoal, and the lower one is made with a graphite stick.

Some old sketches for bridal gowns

These are some designs for my mother's bridal company (www.izabell.hu), but these are ones that never got executed.
They look very funny scanned and superimposed.

Inspiration: Leonardo da Vinci

I cannot have enough of him. And he was left-handed, too.

Teddy

A teddy that I made back in 2006, pastel on paper.
Happy New Year, everyone!

Drapery study

Drapery study that I made last year at school.
Pastel on pale blue-gray tinted paper. 50 by 70 cms.
Click to enlarge.

Inspiration: Kollwitz

So powerful and so much full of sorrow.

Kathe Kollwitz is worth to be known more about.

Two Back Studies

Two recent life studies from school. They don't seem perfect but they are not bad either.
This semester, for the first time, it was not mandatory for us to draw (I mean life drawing), but I enrolled in a life drawing class so that I won't "forget" how to draw. I don't need to tell that I didn't bother to attend up till 3 weeks ago when I realized I had a lot to catch up on, so I went crazy and started drawing 3 or 4 times a week. There was one day when I made some 20 or 30 drawings (mostly croquis though). At first I really thought I had forgotten how to draw, but to my great surprise, I hadn't. Maybe my mind kept on drawing while my hands took a rest from work.
Sanguine plus pastel pencil on A3-size paper and graphite stick plus graphite pencil on A3-size paper.
Click to enlarge.

Scull study

Life study (or death study) made last semester. I made this with pastel on tinted paper.

Croquis

Two more croquis from last semester's work at school.
Frankly, I love croquis. Don't know why. Maybe because I don't like working on the same thing for a long time. But this is not necessarily true. It depends.
Graphite stick on paper, size ca. A4, each