Andre Pijet » Drawings in direct

Europe 2011 – Illustrated Voyages

Andre — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:00:40 +0000

The series of drawings Illustrated Voyages are composed from the sketches made during my 2011 voyage to Europe. The artwork reflects my interest in direct encounter with various places and situations during my travels. I like to explore the moments of visual ecstasy in their real time. What I mean by saying this is the fact of uncontrollable temptation to catch this beautiful feeling of visual enjoyment, which was procured to my senses by the visual perception of experienced realities. To me it is the best way to explore the places I had the chance to visit. The fact of doing fast sketching of the viewed people, situations, and places at the time of my actual presence there induces me with an inexplicable creative thrill. It is a kind of intellectual drug to which I am totally succumbed with all my senses. The fact of drawing in direct is a kind of training camp for my professional skills. This time I decided to use various supports such as linen and cotton canvases for the direct drawing exercises. In addition to sanguine, colored pencils, and watercolors I tried to implement various water base and permanent ink markers. The sketching on canvas with permanent ink markers is not an easy experience. I needed to concentrate totally on what I was doing in order to avoid the perceptional mistakes. It is an interesting exercise. In order to be successful one need to be in total control of the coordination of his mind with his hand. It is always a challenging experiment to any artist exploring the enigma of drawing in direct.

The main purpose of me sketching in direct is to study the innumerable variety of forms and color nuances in order to prepare a source of information which I will explore even further when working on large size canvas. These sketches are for me a kind of coded notebook for the future paintings.

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European Vacation 2010

Andre — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:37:17 +0000

The Gallery “Europe 2010″ contain the collection of sketches executed during my recent voyage in Italy, France and Poland. The drawings reflect my personal perception of places I had the pleasure to see and enjoy in a way an artist does.

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Life Studies

Andre — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 15:43:24 +0000

These are drawings done during my travels. For life sketches I love to use the sanguine charcoal and watercolors. It gives a delicate touch to the drawing and a chromatic harmony to the whole composition. The practice of life sketching should be an essential intellectual gymnastic for all kind of artists. There is nothing more stimulating than drawing model, architecture, landscape, or still life in direct. When I draw, I exclude myself from the reality and I concentrate only on the subject of my interest. Only when I am fully concentrated on my model I see the most important lines and colors to follow. My creative mind leads me through the forms of a model and transfer my artistic sensibility on the fields of the white paper. Drawing life, it is always a poetic journey and some kind of creative adventure to try to see just what is essential for the intrinsic unity of artistic aesthetics of the final artwork.

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Drawings in direct

Andre — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 04:47:56 +0000

Collection of sketches from life models.

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Model studies, acrylic paint on linen canvas.

France, Limoges
October 2009