door Xandra | nov 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
I am experimenting with drawing upside-down – copying drawings while looking at them upside-down so the image becomes unrecognizable for the left side of your brain. This is an exercise described in ‘Drawing on the right side of the brain’ by Betty...
door Xandra | nov 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
‘The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else’ (John Cleese, 1991) ‘One can spend weeks on a marvelous painting of a rabbit, accurate to the tiniest detail – and...
door Xandra | nov 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
‘Knowledge alone seems an inadequate instrument to answer many of the world’s complex global crises, as its tendency is to fragment and to approach issues isolated from their connection to the whole’ (Franses and Wride 2015, p.339) I was talking to a...
door Xandra | okt 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
In this blog I will discuss ‘the Green Ship’ by Quentin Blake and how the illustrator captures the essence of the story in his drawings. Quentin Blake always knows how to move me with his drawings; the way he handles serious and difficult themes (for...
door Xandra | okt 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Rembrandt’s love of the line When I was eighteen I studied in the States for a year and discovered drawing. I was meant to explore different subjects to find a field of study for the future, because I hadn’t a clue what I wanted to ‘be’....
door Xandra | okt 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Capturing Essence I have always admired illustrators who can capture the essence of something with a simple line or a seemingly spontaneously drawn gesture; or on the other hand, with an intricate composition that somehow brings to life the individuals in the...
