July 2006
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I spent the month of July 2006 studying with a group of ten students at the Repin Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia. This was during the white nights, and almost felt like a month of dreaming--dreaming and drawing and painting. The experience in Russia brought me to the realization that all I want to do is be an artist. It is no longer about what I want to do with art--what kind of job I can find to make money using my artistic skills and training--but just that I want to create art for the sake of creating art. And I need to pursue serious study.
In the Russian tradition, these drawings and paintings have been worked on by my instructors--especially drawing instructor Vladimer Alexandravitch--so I cannot claim them as 100% my own.
Private Study with Instructor Alexander Zaitsev
St. Petersburg, Russia
Professor Zaitsev follows a very different philosophy than that of the Repin Academy. He encouraged more freedom, movement, and experimentation. We studied in his studio apartment a few evenings each week. We would leave our drawings and the next time we showed up he had worked on them while we were away--varying quality of line or correcting construction problems. He's do so without the model present, but always seemed to improve our drawings. We did both short sketches and long poses each session.
3 comments:
Nice work, it's really interesting to see.
Jill, I would LOVE to study at the repin academy. How did you go about doing that?
I will like you the way of drawing in simple & easy ways i will expected in the next posting as new things
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