I have a photo of my Dad playing the violin. I tried to find it again today, doing all kinds of searches. I realized out that I also couldn’t find it back in 2017 when I was sketching with watercolor (see post of May 11, 2017). So here’s my current remembrance of Dad lost in […]
Lately, I’ve been playing the Kreutzer etude that Jack Benny made famous.
My Dad always said that if I ever saw a Stradivarius Cloud, there would be a violin storm coming.
I’m trying to find a more perfect line drawing of a beginner violinist. Paul Klee’s “Old Fiddler” from 1940 and “Violin and Bow” 1939 are examples I would like to emulate. The sketch below indicates the attention a beginning violinist must pay to all moving parts, during practice.
For violin practice.
Inspired by Paul Klee’s sketch: Drang for der Vanderung, 1940.
