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Michaela Majce

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Last weekend I went for a little walk up to our Ja

Last weekend I went for a little walk up to our Japanese park here in Vienna, the Setagaya Park. It's a beautiful place and not to far from where I live. Perfect location for some urban sketching. 🙂 Just made a mental note to never go back there on a Sunday. Horribly crowded and way too loud for a meditative place like this. I started the painting there, but fiddled with it later this week back home.

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And another one from yesterday's inspiring session

And another one from yesterday's inspiring session (inspired by the sculptures and drawings of Alberto Giacometti) with Butoh artist Ferzam, hosted by Helen Roeten. In the beginning Ferzam talked about why he chose Giacometti as artist of inspiration for this session, and although I could only hear a few words, as a parcel delivery happened just at that moment, I think it was at least partly about those past Covid years and how lonely many of us had become. That pose - it looked like a reverse scream, you know the one from Edvard Munch, seemed to reflect on that sentiment perfectly. It certainly touched me deeply. The world coming at us thick, while we're depleted, exhausted, and alone, everything upside-down. It's my fave drawing from the session.

It's been done with a watersoluble charcoal pencil from ArtGraf and PanPastel colors on grey paper.

Thank you, Helen and Ferzam for all the inspiration last night! 🙂😘

@ferzambutoh
@helenroetenlifedrawing
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One from yesterday's highly inspiring session with

One from yesterday's highly inspiring session with Butoh artist Ferzam, hosted by Helen Roeten. The session was inspired by the sculptures and drawings of Alberto Giacometti, and of course als by Japanese Butoh dance.

Thank you, Helen and Ferzam for a great evening! 🙂😘

@ferzambutoh
@helenroetenlifedrawing
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The stunning Emily Metalskin again! One from Judit

The stunning Emily Metalskin again! One from Judith Yaws Life Drawing Marathon last Saturday for World Art Day. Thanks to all the wonderful Models, and of course to Judith for organizing this wonderful event. 😊❤️

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@judithyawslife
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@emilymetalskin
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This one is after one of the awesome photographs o

This one is after one of the awesome photographs of American people by @earthsworld. I am stunned by the characters he manages to catch with his camera. I started out with a generously putting some of my new Qor watercolors on a square sketchbook page, and then applying some plastic foil to create texture and an element of surprise. So, the splatters are no splatters but kind of a print, a transfer of color from plastic to paper. I think it worked beautifully in creating the textured skin. Then I worked on it with my also recently bought Caran d'ache Museum watercolor pencils. They'd been on my least for a loooong time cause they cost a shit ton of money, but Amazon had them on offer for about 45% less. What is an art supply addict to do? I just had to buy them. 😂😂😂

Back to how the artwork was made, after working with the pencils, I added more water and colors, then more pencil lines, and so forth until I was happy with the result. Hope you like it as well. 😊

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Inspired by an Icelandic landscape from a referenc

Inspired by an Icelandic landscape from a reference pic kindly provided by Sann Rene Glaza in the FB group Landscape Reference Photos for Artists. I loved the blues in the photo. 🙂

Mostly used Roman Szmal watercolors for that one, but also Derwent watercolor pencils and a soft carbon pencil from ArtGraf.

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As tonight (my timezone at least) there will be an

As tonight (my timezone at least) there will be another session with Emily hosted by Judith Yaws, I thought I'll post another one of my portraits of the fabulous Emily Metalskin.

This one is from last summer. Emily was holding up a real ice cream which started melting and running down her arm, to the floor. Think it was a 20 minute pose, so you can imagine that ice was running fast on a hot summer day. I'm sure cleaning up after that session was no fun. 😬 The painting was done with my Pilot Parallel pen, various dilutions of black ink, and Japanese watercolors.

Tonight's session will be inspired by the icons of the dark side - you should totally check it out! Just go to Judith' page (the handle is below) and book a ticket! It will be so worth it! 🔥😊

@emilymetalskin
@judithyaws
@judithyawslife
@lifefiguredrawing
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OMG, I just discovered I can now post from my PC t

OMG, I just discovered I can now post from my PC too! No need to type texts here, send them to my phone and then copy paste them to Insta there! 😊

Got to try that with another one of Emily Metalskin. This time from a session organized by Henley School of Art last December.

What I used for this one was my Pilot Parallel pen, a pink pencil, I think one of the Faber-Castell Black Edition neon colored ones. And some Sennelier oil pastels from one of my Scrawlrboxes.

@henleyschoolofart
@emilymetalskin
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It's been ages since I last posted. It's not that

It's been ages since I last posted. It's not that I haven't been drawing, just that the process of formating the photo to IG standards, typing the text on my phone, getting the hashtags is kind of tiring, sorry. 😂 But I promise to better myself. 😉 Cause there's lots of art to share with you all.

This one is from one of the recent sessions with the fabulous Emily Metalskin hosted by London Drawing lately. I am hoping that the replays will be available soon 🙏, cause there were sooo many beautiful poses I would like to draw from stills. I will post more pics from those sessions as single pics, using the same text, so in case you're one of the few actually reading what goes with the pics, don't be surprised. 😉 Just trying to beat my posting-laziness. LOL! 😂

My neighbor gave me the Aquarino Box from @cretacoloraustria for Christmas and I've been using their amazing watersoluble graphite pencils for these sessions.

@emilymetalskin @londondrawing
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It's been ages since I last posted. It's not that

It's been ages since I last posted. It's not that I haven't been drawing, just that the process of formating the photo to IG standards, typing the text on my phone, getting the hashtags is kind of tiring, sorry. 😂 But I promise to better myself. 😉 Cause there's lots of art to share with you all.

This one is from one of the recent sessions with the fabulous Emily Metalskin hosted by London Drawing lately. I am hoping that the replays will be available soon 🙏, cause there were sooo many beautiful poses I would like to draw from stills. I will post more pics from those sessions as single pics, using the same text, so in case you're one of the few actually reading what goes with the pics, don't be surprised. 😉 Just trying to beat my posting-laziness. LOL! 😂

My neighbor gave me the Aquarino Box from @cretacoloraustria for Christmas and I've been using their amazing watersoluble graphite pencils for these sessions.

@emilymetalskin @londondrawing
#figuredrawing #onlinelifedrawing #lifefiguredrawing #lifedrawingzoom #zoomfiguredrawing #lifedrawing #figuredrawing #nudedrawing #watercolorportrait #watercolorpainting #instaart #instaartist #artwork #artworkoftheday #artofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #igersaustria #igersvienna #expressivefiguredrawing #expressiveposes #expressivepainting #croquis #mixedmedia #mixedmediapainting #graphite #watersolublegraphite #cretacolor

It's been ages since I last posted. It's not that

It's been ages since I last posted. It's not that I haven't been drawing, just that the process of formating the photo to IG standards, typing the text on my phone, getting the hashtags is kind of tiring, sorry. 😂 But I promise to better myself. 😉 Cause there's lots of art to share with you all.

This one is from one of the recent sessions with the fabulous Emily Metalskin hosted by London Drawing lately. I am hoping that the replays will be available soon 🙏, cause there were sooo many beautiful poses I would like to draw from stills. I will post more pics from those sessions as single pics, using the same text, so in case you're one of the few actually reading what goes with the pics, don't be surprised. 😉 Just trying to beat my posting-laziness. LOL! 😂

My neighbor gave me the Aquarino Box from @cretacoloraustria for Christmas and I've been using their amazing watersoluble graphite pencils for these sessions.

@emilymetalskin @londondrawing
#figuredrawing #onlinelifedrawing #lifefiguredrawing #lifedrawingzoom #zoomfiguredrawing #lifedrawing #figuredrawing #nudedrawing #watercolorportrait #watercolorpainting #instaart #instaartist #artwork #artworkoftheday #artofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #igersaustria #igersvienna #expressivefiguredrawing #expressiveposes #expressivepainting #croquis #mixedmedia #mixedmediapainting #graphite #watersolublegraphite #cretacolor

Ups, I cut the pic, so I deleted the previous Pic

Ups, I cut the pic, so I deleted the previous Pic and repost it now. Sorry! 😉

Another one from yesterday's life drawing session inspired by the work of Andy Warhol with the amazingly versatile Clapmutt @clapmutt, organized by Helen Roeten @helenroetenlifedrawing. I felt hugely inspired, loved the session, the model, the poses, the music! ❤️ Still got to work on some of the pics, so I'm only going to post two today, in two seperate posts.

This one started out as a 4H pencil sketch. I liked it a lot, but it was to light, so I reworked it a bit today with some softer 3B pencil. Thought about adding some color to the background, but it might ruin a perfectly good pencil sketch. Maybe it will fit into my scanner, then I can add color digitally and experiment a bit.

Thanks again for the great evening again, Helen and Clapmutt. 😘

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One from yesterday's life drawing session inspired

One from yesterday's life drawing session inspired by the work of Andy Warhol with the amazingly versatile Clapmutt @clapmutt, organized by Helen Roeten @helenroetenlifedrawing. I felt hugely inspired, loved the session, the model, the poses, the music! ❤️ Still got to work on some of the pics, so I'm only going to post two today, in two seperate posts.

This one started out as a pencil sketch and then I added color from my little Ecoline bottles and some Japanese watercolors. Not sure if I didn't like the version before I started reworking it today better, but unfortunately I forgot to take a pic. 😂

Thanks again for the great evening again, Helen and Clapmutt. 😘

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The fabulous Emily Metalskin @emilymetalskin posin

The fabulous Emily Metalskin @emilymetalskin posing as Mata Hari in An online life drawing session held by the Henley on Thames School of Art @henleyschoolofart on Monday. What a fab session! ❤️ Thanks to all who made it possible, Emily, Diane and Jo! 😘

Got to work on most pieces still, but that one got some color during the session already, so...

Done with watercolor charcoal, Japanese watercolors, and various pencils, color and graphite. And a white Posca for the letters.

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I think I'm going to call it finished. Emily Meta

I think I'm going to call it finished. Emily Metalskin in a 3-hour pose organized by Judith Yaws. The session was inspired by a photograph of Joel-Peter Witkin, a genius photographer whom I hadn't heard of before that session. Emily and Judith are an equally genius duo, the set and composition were just perfect! Thanks again to both of you! 😘

If you swipe through the images in this post you can see various stages. Some things I wasn't happy with, so I replaced them collage-style. Somehow Witkin's pics give me the impression of staged collages anyway, so I thought it would fit the inspiration. 😉 It's a mixed media piece, mostly watercolors (the Daniel Smith @danielsmithartistsmaterials ones), black ink, gouache, and black and white markers. Some darkblue tissue paper (thanks @upcrate for wrapping our artmaterials in various colored papers - I always keep them for collages 😉) was also involved in the making of this artwork.

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@emilymetalskin
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One from yesterday's sessions with Beatriz, organi

One from yesterday's sessions with Beatriz, organized by the wonderful Judith Yaws, who kept me extremely productive since last Saturday, starting with a life drawing marathon and then daily sessions (yes, multiple ones every day) for World Art Week. 🙂 You can still join in tonight. There will be 3 (!) 2-hour sessions with a bunch of awesome models for one donation. Check out her linktree at @judithyawslife. Romy @romys_art_journal, didn't you want to try out Zoom life drawing sessions? Today's a good opportunity for that.😉

This one is drawn with a pencil from my #scrawlrbox. I found that #blackwing pencils really are the best. They just glide over the paper, it's pure joy. The color accents were done with Schmincke super granulating watercolors.

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@lifefiguredrawing
@lifedrawing_beatriz.pt
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When @albertvoorhorst and I had our joint drawing

When @albertvoorhorst and I had our joint drawing session yesterday, I went for a #DrawThisInYourStyle challenge by Ama @greyishteal. Found it in Berhard Sombret's @bernardsombret weekly DTIYS compilation. Merci beaucoup, Bernard, for finding all those cool challenges! 🙂 I was really drawn to this red café sign. Funny thing is, I decided pretty early on that I would leave out that huge street lamp, cause my focus was that red sign, and I didn't want that lamp to interfere with it. But when I had finished I noticed that I left out the large signboard on the green wall as well. My mind had totally blocked it. 😂

Painted it on artisanal cotton rag paper (in my Artway Indigo sketchbook @artwayltd), with the my new super granulating watercolors from Schmincke , some other watercolors as well, Unipin fineliners and brushpens, and the @turnercolourworks ’s Acryl Gouache I recently had in my #upcratebox.

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Just learned that today is national pencil day, na

Just learned that today is national pencil day, national as in the UK only maybe? Doesn't matter. 😉 I think this #selfportrait from October 2020 is probably the only pure colorpencil drawing I made. I've been using them in combination with other media since, but didn't quite get the hang of using them as a sole tool. In case you're wondering, that blue thing on my head is my Superman tee. 😂😂😂

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Another one from Helen Roeten's @helenroetenlifedr

Another one from Helen Roeten's @helenroetenlifedrawing life drawing session inspired by Vincent van Gogh last Saturday. Our model that night was Naomi @naomigrq. The drawing was done my 6 mm Pilot Parallel Pen filled with permanent black carbon ink, and the sunflower was colored with Japanese watercolors.

Great evening again, thanks so much for organizing the session, Helen, and Naomi for being such an expressive model. 😘

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One from Helen Roeten's @helenroetenlifedrawing li

One from Helen Roeten's @helenroetenlifedrawing life drawing session inspired by Vincent van Gogh last Saturday. Our model that night was Naomi @naomigrq. The drawing was done my 6 mm Pilot Parallel Pen filled with permanent black carbon ink, and the sunflower was colored with Japanese watercolors.

Great evening again, thanks so much for organizing the session, Helen, and Naomi for being such an expressive model. 😘

#helenroetenlifedrawing #figuredrawing #onlinelifedrawing #drawingpeople #lifefiguredrawing #lifedrawingzoom #zoomfiguredrawing #lifedrawing #figuredrawing #zoomdrawing #humanfiguredrawing #instaart #instaartist #artworkoftheday #artofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #igersaustria #igersvienna #expressivefiguredrawing #expressiveposes #expressivepainting #gansaitambi #japanesewatercolor #experimentsinart #afpaotw #pilotparallelpen #parallelpen #contemporaryart #zoomlifedrawing #sunflower #vincentvangogh

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