Skill comes with practice – Metroheads
METROHEADS – TETES DE METRO – see left sidebar !
It’s all about daily practice! Skill comes with practice. In German this would be: “Übung macht den Meister”, in French “l’exercice fait le maître”.
I heard this sentence very often from my mom and dad when I struggled while learning something and it stuck with me. Often I disregarded this great advice because I had no patience, but time and again I was reminded that there really are no shortcuts.
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One of the first Metroheads
A series of portraits I began in Autumn 2007. I have drawn more than hundred faces already, and I would like to draw 1000, (did I just say 1000????) not matter how much time it will take. Right now I’m in the process of transferring all the Metroheads and the writings I did for all of them from my first blog to Parisdreamtime.
On my daily trips through Paris I use the metro, and I draw people’s faces in my Moleskine notebook, I like to call it my “CARNET DE VOYAGE DU METRO PARISIEN”. Most times people don’t even notice that I’m drawing them, and if they do, they never object. Pencil, ink pen and notebook are less intrusive than a camera may be…Sometimes they give me lots of time to draw them in detail, sometimes I only get seconds, but I always feels as if I shared a precious moment with those persons. When I come home I use watercolor to give the faces more depth, or I leave the drawing as it is, always depending on what the drawing seems to “need”.
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they are all wonderful to behold. A book of them would be divine!
Oh Andrea, you know how much I adore your Metroheads! You seem to find the very best of people you connect with on the Metro and get that down in your sketchbook!
I completely agree with you about the daily practice! It makes all the difference. Finding time for our art is HUGE, and sometimes it doesn’t come in the form we believe it will.
Reading this blog is always an amazing education no only in art or about Paris or living the artistic life, but gee we get to learn language here, too! Very Cool!
Oh yes.. a book on metroheads would be great. Love this colorful drawing here. I didnt get this on my dashboard. but it finally came to my email address or I would have been here sooner. Keep on drawing these please. Miss Doodle too. I miss her. Its beautiful here today. hope it was there too.
Wie ich mich freue deine metroheads wieder zu sehen. Machst du eigentlich noch immer neue?
Ja, übung macht den meister, oder die aquarellmeisterin.
Einen schönen frühlingsanfang wünsche ich dir Andrea.
XXXm
absolutely a book – I was thinking that as I read this in my email…and then I come over here thinking I am so original and everyone here wants a book! tell that to the publishers – you already have buyers!
lovely as always:-)
a party to visit you,
OT
how do i place flickr on my weblog if i want to do that
can you tell me please?
thanks
xxx
oh Andrea, these are beautiful… appears as if a book is in the making!!!
this is fabulous! I’ve never seen anything quite like it!