I have been enjoying the Käthe Kollwitz exhibition at Swansea’s Glynn Vivian Art Gallery and I bought the exhibition book. I wanted to study her woodcut technique in more detail so I laid a black ground in the Markers drawing app on my Samsung Galaxy Note 8 tablet and then drew into it with white brush and line functions, to emulate the lines she had originally cut into a block of wood. When you look at the original, it seems very, very simple but when you study it and try to copy it, it’s a lot more complicated than it appears.
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Ha, ha, it never is, is it. What appears simple comes from being ingrained over years of practice. Don’t we know this once we try and emulate our favourites.
oh goodness yes, her woodcuts look so simple, just a few quick cuts …. so I thought. Wrong!
I’m in awe of her drawing skills Rosie, but you’ve done a grand job there too 😊
Thanks Phil, once you start to analyse the work of the greats, you understand why they’re great 😀