Audible Drawing #5

Audible Drawing # 5 from the 31st January 2008
Pencil, 12 x 24 cm

Audible Drawing #4

Audible Drawing #4 from the 24th January
Pencil, 24 x 12 cm

WC Garçons

Pencil and litho ink, 24 x 16 cm

Audible Drawing #3

This drawing is from the 18th January 2008. Pencil and Indian ink on heavy watercolor paper (270 g, 12 x 12 cm), it comes with a CD of the sound recorded during the drawing process (44.6 minutes).
Recorded to a printable Taiyo Yuden 'Watershield' CDR.


Here is a little extract:

Audible Drawing #2

I made this drawing on the 11th January: It is pencil on 270 g watercolor paper, and comes in a CD jewel case - accompanied by a CD with the sound of the pencil on the paper, recorded during the complete drawing process (41.5 minutes).

It was raining a lot, and I decided to draw in my car - so the environmental noise on this one (besides the pencil) is mainly the radio, and from time to time you can hear the rain becoming louder ... and sometimes I turned the wipers on to see something. (I'll try to add a small audio extract to this post later.)

Recorded to a high quality printable Taiyo Yuden 'Watershield' CDR in a limited edition of one (see below).

Light on a tree

Pencil and Indian ink on 270 g watercolor paper, 12 x 12 cm (4.7 x 4.7 in.)

Sea

Sometimes you make a drawing and you don't know why it just doesn't want to look like what you've tried hard to achieve ... well, my daughter likes this one anyway, so I thought I might post it. (Nice, this afternoon)

Des fois on n'aime pas un dessin qu'on ne trouve pas ce qui aurait pu le sauver, mais les autres l'aiment quand même ... bon, comme ma fille aime celui-ci, je vous le montre... (Nice, Blue Beach, vers 13 h)

Manchmal ist man ziemlich unzufrieden mit einer Zeichnung und weiss nicht, wie man sie hätte retten können - naja, diese hier gefällt immerhin meiner Tocher, darum zeige ich sie trotzdem. (Nizza, heute nachmittag)

Pencil, 14 x 12 cm

Belle journée

Enfin une journée sans pluie (il y en avait peut-être d'autres depuis que j'ai fait le dernier dessin, mais je n'ai pas pu en profiter pour dessiner depuis)!

Finally a day without rain (there may have been one and a half others or so since my last drawing, but I wasn't able to benefit from them until today...)

Endlich mal wieder ein Tag ohne Regen - sogar mit Sonne! (ok das gab's vielleicht schon mal seit meiner letzten Zeichnung, aber ich konnte leider bis heute nicht davon profitieren ...)


Pencil and Indian ink, 12 x 12 cm

Drawing in the rain

It's been raining here for a few days without interruption now, so I decided to make the "drawing under difficult conditions" experience today – an exercise recommended to anyone seriously interested in drawing ;-) – and after some aimless walking in the rain, this dead tree appeared to be a particularly well suited subject.
So I did this drawing standing in the rain with an umbrella and the paper in one hand, and an ink pen in the other... several times I was afraid that the wind would carry away my umbrella, and after a couple of minutes it was really getting chilly.

Comme il pleut quasiment sans interruption depuis quelques jours, j'ai décidé de faire volontairement un «dessin dans des conditions difficiles» aujourd'hui - une exercice intéressante, à recommander à chaque dessinateur ... et j'ai trouvé que cet arbre mort était un sujet particulièrement bien adapté à ces conditions...
Avec le parapluie et le papier dans une main, et le stylo dans l'autre, je dessinais debout. Les gouttes de pluie sur le dessin font évidemment partie du résultat recherché, mais ce qui était moins drôle c'était le vent qui menaçait plusieurs fois d'emporter mon parapluie, et le froid, qui est devenu quand même assez désagréable après quelques minutes.

Seit ein paar Tagen regnet es hier fast ununterbrochen, aber heute habe ich mich dennoch entschieden, "unter schwierigen Bedingungen" zu zeichnen – eine interessante Übung, die ich jedem Zeichner nur ans Herz legen kann – und dieser tote Baum schien mir für eine "Zeichnung im Regen" besonders geeignet.
Mit dem Regenschirm und dem Blatt Papier in der einen Hand, und einem Stift in der anderen Hand, hatte ich mehrmals Angst, dass mir der Wind den Schirm davontragen würde, und nach wenigen Minuten war mir wirklich ziemlich kalt...

Indian ink on 270 g watercolor paper, 10,5 x 14,7 cm (4.1 x 5.8 in.)

Audible Drawing #1

It took a certain time to prepare it, but here it finally is: Audible Drawing number one.

This is the first one in an unlimited series of 'audible drawings'.
It is pencil on paper, measures 12 x 12 cm, and comes in a CD jewel case - accompanied by a CD.

The CD is a recording of the drawing: The sound of the pencil on the paper, recorded during the entire creation process of this very drawing. Besides the pencil scratching, some environmental noise can be heard as well, such as birds or cars passing by: You can hear exactly the same things as I have heard while I was drawing. Assist in the birth of a drawing, re-experience the atmosphere of the landscape - become an ear witness of fourty-eight minutes of my life...

The audio is recorded to a printable CDR in a 'limited edition of one'.

I'll sell it on ebay soon, except if anyone wants to buy it before I have the time to do so - special price for this first one: 50 Euros, postage included to anywhere in the world, Paypal accepted.

Villefranche-sur-Mer #4

Pencil, 14 x 12 cm (5.5 x 4.7 in.)

Apologies for the long silence... I've had a very busy month (like all of you probably), here is just another little Villefranche drawing from this afternoon.
I hope that you've all had a Merry Christmas, and that you'll have a Happy New Year!

Pipe

Pencil, 12 x 16 cm (4.7 x 6.3 in.)

Landscape #18

Paysage numéro dix-huit (route des Dolines, près de la Médiathèque de Valbonne)

Pencil, 12 x 16 cm (4.7 x 6.3 in.)

Haut Sartoux, Place Bermond

Pencil, 16 x 12 cm (6.3 x 4.7in.)

Landscape #17

Today I went to a slightly different place than usually. The landscape is more or less like all the other ones I drew recently, and the mountain in the background is the same - but something was special here... maybe the light falling from the side. It's a light that creates a certain depth, I think (at least, in the drawing).

Aujourd'hui j'ai dessiné à un endroit légèrement différent : le paysage est plus ou moins le même que d'habitude, avec le même sommet à l'arrière-plan - mais quelque chose était différent ici.... c'était peut-être la lumière que tombait du côté - il me semble que c'est une lumière qui crée beaucoup de profondeur (au moins dans le dessin).

Pencil, 12 x 16 cm (4.7 x 6.3 in.)

Landscape #16

Now that I've uploaded this scan to the blog, I have the impression that the sky is a 'landscape behind the landscape'. I think on the original drawing it looks more like a sky... maybe I should use glossier paper...

Maintenant que j'ai chargé le scan dans le blog, j'ai l'impression que le ciel est un 'paysage derrière le paysage', alors que dans l'original il ressemble plus à un ciel ... peut-être je devrais utiliser un papier plus lisse...

Pencil, 12 x 12 cm (4.7 x 4.7 in.)

Landscape #15 or small landscape

This is a small drawing I made on Friday (the 16th), but since my internet access at home is currently interrupted, I can only post it today.
I took a small piece of paper (16 x 12 cm / 6.3 x 4.7 in), traced a smaller rectangle into it (8 x 4 cm / 3.1 x 1.6 in), and then drew this landscape (en plein air, as always).
You can click on it to see a higher resolution.

Ceci est un dessin de vendredi (16/11), mais comme mon accès à internet à la maison ne marche pas actuellement, je le publie seulement aujourd'hui.
Sur une petite feuille de papier (16 x 12 cm), j'ai tracé un petit rectangle (8 x 4 cm) dans lequel j'ai dessiné ce petit paysage (devant la nature, bien sûr).
Comme d'habitude, on peut cliquer dessus pour voir l'image en plus grand.

Pencil. Paper size: 16 x 12 cm (6.3 x 4.7 in) - drawing: 8 x 4 cm (3.1 x 1.6 in)

Saturday afternoon

On Saturday afternoon we had a coffee at Opéra Plage (in Nice). The weather was a bit unstable, but most of the time excellent. The places in front of us were all empty, though there were more guests in the café, but most people had taken the tables closer to the wall to avoid the wind - like we did.
Before we arrived at the beach, we passed by a market of old books, where I found a bilingual edition of the 'Deck Diaries' by Giorgos Seferis, which captured my attention not only because it was Greek with German translation, but also because it had some nice illustrations by Andy Schellemann. Reading poetry in a café on the beach on a warm autumn day is certainly one of the most precious privileges this world can offer today, so just let me share this impression with you…

(An English translation of the poem on these pages can be found here.)

Landscape #14

I should use litho ink more often. I like this medium quite a bit, but I still have some trouble using it correctly - the 'blue' sky in the upper right corner shouldn't have this grainy structure that it took in my drawing. Anyway, I've just tried to capture the first snow in these mountains that I had drawn so often during the summer (landscapes #6, 7, and 9). Yes, it's getting colder on the Cote d'Azur these days, and I've protected the hibiscus on our terrace with a winter protection fleece this evening, before we went over to our neighbours to taste the Beaujolais nouveau.

Je devrais utiliser l'encre lithographique plus souvent - j'aime beaucoup cette technique, mais j'ai toujours du mal à l'utiliser correctement: Le ciel 'bleu' ne devrait pas avoir cette structure granuleuse qu'il a pris en haut à droite. Peu importe - je voulais juste capturer ce moment où la première neige est tombée dans ces montagnes que j'ai dessinés si souvent cet été (paysages nº 6, 7 et 9). Eh oui, il fait froid maintenant à la Côte d'Azur, et j'ai protégé les hibiscus sur la terrasse avec un voile d'hibernage ce soir, avant d'aller déguster le Beaujolais nouveau chez nos voisins.

Litho ink / encre lithographique, 40 x 30 cm (15.7 x 11.8 in.)

Free drawing #15

It might be a little bit difficult to identify, but this is a cute little photo frame with an elfin lying on it — kitschy? who said that? — which I've placed outdoors on a rock. In the frame you can see the photograph Anthony Gripon has taken of my free drawing #11, the drawing that I've made of the photograph that Sarah Wimperis has taken of my free drawing #8, which shows the photograph Ed Lisieski took of my drawing "Building #1".

C'est peut-être un peu difficile à voir, mais ce que l'on voit ici c'est un petit cadre photo avec une elfe couchée dessus - et dans le cadre, c'est la photo qu'Anthony Gripon a prise de mon dessin gratuit no. 11 - le dessin que j'ai fait de la photo que Sarah Wimperis a prise de mon dessin gratuit no. 8, qui montrait la photo prise par Ed Lisieski de mon dessin Building #1.

Pencil on paper, 15 x 10 cm (5.9 x 3.9 in.)

• Update Nov. 15: This drawing goes to Edward B. Gordon.

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