Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Sketching at The English National Ballet School (III)

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These are the rest of the sketches that during the Ballet rehearsal sessions.  The connection with the dancers and the whole experience of being there live and sketching moving people is what I cherish! It's one of those exercises that a sketcher longs for. One thing that is common in all these sketches is the oval head sketched on almost all the pages. It is also just a good thing to have sketched, so many oval heads on the sheet while trying to figure out how to sketch the different movements. But no matter what technique I tried to use, it always dawned on me that this was beyond my reach. It was humbling but reassuring at the same time.

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SPECIAL QUOTE
"Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality"-Edgar Degas

2 comments:

Sadami said...

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adebanji said...

:o)