Snapshots of the past moth

One of the ideas that were behind the trip through Europe that Aron and I undertook this past month was that of artistic input/output. With notepads in hands we set out to take part of some of the finest sights this continent has to offer, hoping to fill said notepads with our impressions and thoughts.
Partially I guess one kind of killed the other. If you contantly stuff your head with new powerful impressions, it's hard to truly settle down and create something. So basically what I did was to just portray what I saw, which really is what I do otherwise aswell. So.
Aron was of course my foremost subject:

This was drawn with a set of colour pencils, right by a canal close to Amsterdams central station. The light of that city was truly inspiring, and so was trying to capture it with those colour pencils.

Drawn in Haarlem, a smaller city nearby Amsterdam, I could have detailed the background a lot more in this one. I really like how the face came out though.


This is Aron at Venice's central station, waiting for the train to Ljubljana. Drawn with a set of regular pencils and a white one.
Now one of the most, purely visually, impressive sights of this trip was the scenery around and on Lake Bled (Slovenia), which also inspired a poem Aron has posted here. There was, as you may know, a church on the island in the middle of this big lake, surrounded by treecovered hills. This is my take on the scene:

At the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria, I had the opportuniy to copy some of Egon Schiele's drawings. Schiele is an artist I really like, plus a fantastic draughtsman. Gustav Klimt's superior, according to Klimt himself. Copying his drawings was a great experience. It felt funny how his lines seemed so natural to draw, so essential somehow. It felt almost like I had drawn these drawings before.
These are the ones I think turned out best:

That's all for now, thanks for the kindness and shit in response to my previous posts.

Weekly quote:

"I'm gonna tear this room down with my two bare...minds"
-Camu Tao

/Theo