Abans d'ahir

IFJM 26/April/2015

2015-04-26T17:26:00.000+02:00

Sunday, 26th April — [no written entry, image only]

IFJM 25/April/2015

2015-04-26T09:15:00.000+02:00

Saturday, 25th April — [no written entry, image only]

IFJM 24/April/2015

2015-04-26T09:02:00.000+02:00

Friday, 24th April — [no written entry, image only]

IFJM 23/April/2015

2015-04-24T21:35:00.000+02:00

Thursday, 23rd April — New therapy is hard. K. mentioned surgery if ECT does not work.

IFJM 20/April/2015

2015-04-22T10:00:00.001+02:00

Monday, 20th April — I'm dreading K.'s appointment tomorrow, I'm afraid he will see no significant improvement.

IFJM 19/April/2015

2015-04-19T20:52:00.000+02:00

Sunday, 19th April — I'm exhausted. Perhaps they're right and they know better.

IFJM 16/April/2015

2015-04-17T17:13:00.000+02:00

Thursday, 16th April — Some areas are restricted to the guests now so I'm not able to roam when and wherever I please. Less chances to find unexpected things to draw.

IFJM 15/April/2015

2015-04-17T17:07:00.000+02:00

Wednesday, 15th April — I'm not enjoying my baths anymore. Tried to talk to K. to no avail.

IFJM 12/April/2015

2015-04-13T08:46:00.000+02:00

Sunday 12th April — How stubborn my brain can be. Insists in adapting the reality to what it thinks it is.

My brain does not care about truths. Its only interest is definition, sharp edges, the limits in shapes.

My eyes try to speak louder but my hands keep moving, confused.

Brain always wins.

IFJM 11/April/2015

2015-04-11T19:55:00.000+02:00

Saturday 11th April -- I found the sewing room but didn't feel like entering. I walked outside instead and sat on a bench near the windows.

A garden's worker got me this onion as he walked past me. Too lazy to go and get my paints so I just drew.

IFJM 10/April/2015

2015-04-11T09:16:00.000+02:00

Friday 10th April — An uninterrupted night's sleep. K. suggested I should try some other classes besides my occasional drawing and painting sessions.

I'm not sure I will. The bath session was all right, enjoyable even but I'm not so sure I need to fill my days with more activities. Just walking in the gardens and enjoying some quite time seem to be a comfort enough for me.

IFJM 08/April/2015

2015-04-10T09:53:00.000+02:00

Wednesday 8th April -- I've added colour to this sketch I drew on Sunday.

I'm not sure who this is but he didn't mind me staring at him. He was quiet (I appreciate that in my subjects) and when I said I was done he left without a word. I don't think he's a member of the staff. Or maybe he is.

I'll see if I can find him again some other time. It's too loud in here today.

IFJM 06/April/2015

2015-04-08T20:44:00.000+02:00

Monday, 6th April — An unnecessarily long day.

The light feels weird and my eyes are hurting. This paper is too absorbent, the pen makes blobs if I don't draw fast enough.

I've ordered an early dinner as I'm looking forward to bedtime.

IFJM 05/April/2015

2015-04-08T08:41:00.000+02:00

Sunday, 5th April — I rested for the most part of yesterday and got three sketches in a row today –

The proportions in the third sketch were all wrong and I kept restating the lines. It was a mess already so I thought that I could not make it any worse with paint. Looks better now.

Subject was happy as she said I had improved her features (she kept talking all the time when she was posing so yes, I might have been painting without more than a few quick glances at her).

IFJM 03/April/2015

2015-04-07T09:00:00.000+02:00

3rd April - A quick pen sketch and another in pencil today. The subjects kept moving. And talking. But I was determined to finish.

In the evening I painted both, not much else to do either. I wish I would have brought another sketchbook, this paper won't take washes and I can only use thick gouache.

But I'm surprised to find that I'm not missing my paintbox. Three colours (plus white) seem more than enough now.

IFJM 01/April/2015

2015-04-06T11:44:00.001+02:00

1st April – I picked up my gouache tubes and tried my hand with one of the sketches I did yesterday.

Subject is not happy, she does not recognize herself –

... and she may have a point, the face is highly distorted, but I love the (almost) tactile volume of it.

I wouldn't touch hers for anything though.

International Fake Journal Month 2015 (#IFJM2015)

2015-04-06T11:08:00.000+02:00

Well hello. It's me talking to myself again.

It's that time of the year again, International Fake Journal Month and I'm participating this year for the second time.

I don't do journaling per se, I only draw/paint in a sketchbook every now and then but I don't usually write anything in it.

This year I was going to do the same thing as I did for 2012, tweak the rules of IFJM to suit my needs which are simply to invest myself in a project that holds me accountable for regular production and be involved in a group project where there is other people doing the same thing and are interested in what others are doing.

I enjoyed my participation in 2012 but, unfortunately, the "draw-anything-really, anything-like, daily" bit did not stick with me. And I did not follow the rules strictly either: I just wanted to focus on productivity, do something in my sketchbook as regular as possible for a month and I didn't have a fake journaler persona, just some kind of loose plot in my mind as an excuse for what I was doing (I was supposed to be visiting Copenhaguen and I just searched for google maps and drew bits and pieces of that city).

I'm trying again this year, we're already into the 6th day of the month and I have 6 pages already (!) and today, as I was taking notes for the "wrap up" we are encouraged to do at the end of the month, I figured a way to add text and make the vague plot in my head to make a little more (faking) sense.

(An album in my flickr account will hold all my pages and I'll post here with added text)

So let's see where all this faking will take me... ;)

2012-10-28T09:04:00.000+01:00

Sketches & digital colour.

Colouring last April IFJM entries...

2012-07-11T19:02:00.000+02:00

Lamy Safari with Noodler's Lexington grey & watercolour on watercolour moleskine.

Colouring the sketches I made for Roz Stendahl's International Fake Journal Month 2012...

Dust covers

2012-06-03T19:42:00.000+02:00

Having some fun with dust covers...

Back to ink...

2012-05-30T12:55:00.000+02:00

Noodler's Ahab flex pen & Lamy Safari with Noodler's Lexington gray and Monteverde red ink on Moleskine sketchbook.

Experimenting with gouache

2012-05-20T21:22:00.000+02:00

Ink and gouache sketches on Moleskine & Fabriano sketchbooks.

International Fake Journal Month 2012

2012-04-27T09:30:00.000+02:00

I’ve been busy this month participating in Roz Stendahl’s International Fake Journal Month. Its purpose is to make people think of an alter ego and have him/her visual journaling for a month.

I thought of some sketchy background for my fake identity, but I was mainly interested in the challenge of being able to draw something daily and see what I could do in a month (and being abroad seemed the perfect excuse for using Google Earth and some photos of mine).

I’m posting some of the coloured ones but they’re mainly ink drawings: IFJM 2012 (which might or might not get coloured in the near future).
It’s been a roller-coaster month of sorts but I’m happy with the fact that at the moment I only skipped 3 days out of 26! The results are not that great but I’m posting all of them (the ones I like, the bad and the ugly) in an album at Flickr because I want to think it’s better to have a bunch of bad drawings than none at all.

Think of joining next year, all in all it's been a great experience! :)

EDM #209 - Draw a shadow

2012-04-01T19:51:00.003+02:00

EDM #209 - Draw a shadow.

Lamy Safari with Noodler's Lexington Grey ink.

2012-03-25T20:08:00.000+02:00

EDM # 219, Draw a window.

Noodler's Ahab flex pen with Bad Blue Heron ink.