I love your quick sketches. I am taking a live drawing class through Saddleback Emeritus College. The nude model changes poses every 20 minutes and I can barely keep up! It is improving my drawing skills. I would show you some of my sketches if I knew how to include them.
In hindsight, it does rather assume I am across your full body of work. So to clarify: What seems like a departure from the Liza Donnelly I have become familiar with over the past decade or so, is the general uncontrolled style of this drawing. It was as though in surrendering to the circumstances of the moment, you also (inadvertently) surrendered to a different style. What do you think?
I consider this special- likely because I’m so old school it brings back memories.
It occurs to me you could easily do a spectacular panoramic piece in sketches - a kind of broader view of penn station or grand central, as a kind of homage to the renaissance walls of figures, didactic and symbolic - maybe incorporating some old and new figures you’ve done before in a kind of dynamic pastiche.
I love the speeded up recording with the vibration you were dealing with and the managing the notebook and the camera…and the audacity of your subject’s movements. And how alive the drawing is!
OK, when I rode the train, I could hardly hold my NYTimes. So consider yourself a master that you can do all these things, and come out with a terrific drawing. So I almost spit out my organic, filtered, no-lead water today when I heard about Kennedy and the worm that ate his brain. Dear Lord, the mainstream headlines are becoming more and more like the ones we read in those trashy rags we see at the supermarket.. you know, the kind that buy stories and then, tank them? Needless to say, the worm died. And it/he/them/they/whatever didn't even leave a review of the meal. So what does that say about Kennedy?
I love your quick sketches. I am taking a live drawing class through Saddleback Emeritus College. The nude model changes poses every 20 minutes and I can barely keep up! It is improving my drawing skills. I would show you some of my sketches if I knew how to include them.
That's a great exercize, I did it in college and later when I took classes at the School of Visual arts!
Love this production Liza! Are you wearing your camera like a harmonica?!I remember your running and drawing that was a feat !
The pen looks like a rapidograph…. Is it?
Your fan-
Thanks! Nope, holding it with the other had! I do have a devise for around my neck....hahahaa. No the pen is just a fancy marker type.
I love this. It's so NOT Liza Donnelly but perhaps a new direction?
How do you mean NOT me? :)
In hindsight, it does rather assume I am across your full body of work. So to clarify: What seems like a departure from the Liza Donnelly I have become familiar with over the past decade or so, is the general uncontrolled style of this drawing. It was as though in surrendering to the circumstances of the moment, you also (inadvertently) surrendered to a different style. What do you think?
I consider this special- likely because I’m so old school it brings back memories.
It occurs to me you could easily do a spectacular panoramic piece in sketches - a kind of broader view of penn station or grand central, as a kind of homage to the renaissance walls of figures, didactic and symbolic - maybe incorporating some old and new figures you’ve done before in a kind of dynamic pastiche.
lovely idea, as long as perspective is minimal!
I love the speeded up recording with the vibration you were dealing with and the managing the notebook and the camera…and the audacity of your subject’s movements. And how alive the drawing is!
THanks, that's great to hear how alive it is!
“How dare she!” *giggling*
OK, when I rode the train, I could hardly hold my NYTimes. So consider yourself a master that you can do all these things, and come out with a terrific drawing. So I almost spit out my organic, filtered, no-lead water today when I heard about Kennedy and the worm that ate his brain. Dear Lord, the mainstream headlines are becoming more and more like the ones we read in those trashy rags we see at the supermarket.. you know, the kind that buy stories and then, tank them? Needless to say, the worm died. And it/he/them/they/whatever didn't even leave a review of the meal. So what does that say about Kennedy?
OMG, Kennedy. did you see his nephew (Caroline's son) is making fun of him on TIkTok?
I don't TikTok, but can imagine. His sister doesn't support him either. xoxoxo
Rattle-trapping with pen, paper and camera. Still, you did it! The train sounds: I remember them from my one visit to D.C. and NYC.