People and Tableaux in motion

In urban sketching we experience the task of drawing people in motion, while reporting urban life.

Last spring me and Caroline Peyron held a workshop with three actors who create tableaux vivants, not as a static final pose, but as a sequence of movements that leads from a painting to another, with just a 60 seconds pause on the represented painting.

Sketching them has been a great experience. I loved the total immersion in a painted masterpiece and the deep concentration that the actors communicated, while music gave the rhythm both to their sequence than to our drawing hands. I felt this exercise has been important and it effected my way of drawing.

We tried to find the best way to draw and paint fast. Water-soluble charcoal, graphite and pencil, China ink, brush pens. I used a fountain pen, red and black brush pen and white pastel.

Last year we explored Caravaggio paintings while this time we’ll work on Rosso Fiorentino and Pontormo, two late Renaissance artists. More drawings and videos from last year “Disegno in Scena” in this set. Here our new program.