I like Paul Klee‘s artwork so much that I follow him on twitter. I tried emulating his piece, Woman in Peasant Dress, which was twittered earlier today. Of course, there is no comparison between the two compositions. What I had in mind was to break up the space with wide ink lines, which Klee uses […]
I look at a lot of Paul Klee‘s work. He was a Bauhaus Master, teacher and prolific artist. He likened drawing to “taking a pencil point for a walk”. I’ve taken this aphorism to heart in trying to reduce my sketches to their basic elements. Below is a simple portrait.
I’ve been reading about Richard Diebenkorn, trying to understand how he created his works of art. I know that every creative person has his or her own way of ‘making [ideas] visible’ (to borrow a phrase that Paul Klee, Bauhaus Master, used to describe how an artist creates). I became so sleepy while attempting to […]
The inspiration for today’s painting was ‘Six Species‘, a painting by Paul Klee, Bauhaus Master (and my hero), drawn to my attention by a tweet from @artistklee. I began by trying to replicate the halo effect from Klee’s composition. Instead, my shapes became the leading edge of a gradient that faded from dark to light. I did […]
Today I tried to combine story telling with iconography, as the Bauhaus Master, Paul Klee did. However, as I understand the art of Klee, he had very few preconceptions of the final outcome of his painting. He would take his pencil point ‘for a walk’ and let his creativity guide him. His astute design sense […]
Once again, I was inspired by Paul Klee, Bauhaus Master, for today’s experiment. The Kettle Drummer was in the back of my mind, but Blue Bird Pumpkin gave me the idea for a solid background that surround two colored disks. I am satisfied with this composition as a first step of exploration of this subject. […]
Below is another sketch, whose inspiration came from the pictures on the inside of my eyelids, the other day. (I don’t consider them dream images, since they were in front of me. When I dream, I am immersed in the vision.) I’ve always aspired to create a simple line drawing like those that seemed to flow […]
I began without any ideas at all today. I just painted a shape here and another shape there. What I had in mind was to surround each shape with a black moat, creating a maze. Paul Klee painted many paintings with this look (such as Intention and Comedians’ Handbill). The shapes in this composition don’t have much meaning. […]
I used to play the violin. I still have the one my friend from a violin-making school made for me. It is a beautiful copy of a Guarneri del Gesu. I’m scared to death to look at it, as I haven’t taken it out in a very long time. Paul Klee was a musician as well […]
I got the idea for the composition below from Paul Klee’s Quarry, 1945, in a round-about way. I had Klee in mind when I folded and scored the paper first, in columns, then in irregular rows. Then I thumbed through one of my books of Klee’s paintings and found Quarry. I couldn’t quite get the […]
