Things as they are

Posted on 26 de Jun de 202426 de Jun de 2024 Posted in Imagination, Poetry, Still lifeTagged Colour, Still life, Drawing, Sketch, Poem1 Comment

From “The Man with the Blue Guitar” by Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), a fragment from part XIV.

“…A candle is enough to light the world,

It makes it clear. Even at noon

It glistens in essential dark.

At night, it lights the fruit and wine,

The book and bread, things as they are.”

For those interested, the complete Wallace Stevens poem inspired, in the seventies, the series of etchings “The Blue Guitar” by David Hockney – well worth to be seen.

Drawing session

Posted on 4 de Jun de 2024 Posted in Sketches, drawings, paintingsTagged Charcoal, Drawing, Marker, Model, Roman, Sketch1 Comment

Yesterday, another model drawing session of the Lisbon Drawing Club. The venue was again the Roman Museum, more precisely the ruins of the old Roman Theatre. The model was dressed according to the place and historic time. , Nice session, a beautiful place with a superb view to Tagus, many sailboats under a bright blue sky. Some sketches from that session