Non-Dominant Hand Drawings: April 18th and 19th
On Wednesday I met my artist friends at Galerie St. Etienne to see their current exhibit - Drawing the Line: Realism and Abstraction in Expressionist Art (through July 6th). There are 69 drawings, etchings, lithographs, and woodcuts from Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, Richard Gerstl, George Grosz, Erich Heckel, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Oscar Kokoschka, Alfred Kubin, Auguste Macke, Franz Marc, Otto Mueller, Emil Nolde, Hermann Max Pechstein, Egon Schiele, and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
As usual, we found many masters that we wanted to copy. I sketched "Sleeping Woman" by Pechstein with my non-dominant hand. I also sketched "The Shepherdess," but need to finish it at home because we ran out of time.
Before my fracture I was practicing "line of action" drawings as presented by Suhita Shirodkar in a Craftsy Class. Yesterday I used photos from a clothing catalogue to practice the technique with my non-dominant hand. I made a quick line of action, concentrating on a line from head down to weight-bearing leg and foot, and then completed the drawing in ink. My pencil lines are still visible. I see my hand surgeon this morning, and hopefully will learn how many more weeks I will have my cast.
