In Memoriam Marijke van Schijndel

It is with great sorrow that we have to report the passing away of our dear friend and fellow Hangar member, Marijke van Schijndel, on Thursday, September 13th, 2012.

She has been a member for almost 10 years, attended drawing and acrylic painting classes with beautiful results. Together with her husband Ton she enjoyed and actively attended our social events. She also has been a driving force in the organization of our annual Art-trip.

We will remember her as a friendly, positive and enthousiastic member and she will be sorely missed by the Hangar community.

We express our condolences to her husband Ton and family and wish them strength during this period of great sadness.

The cremation ceremony will take place on Tuesday September 18th at 14:00 hrs in the crematorium Rijtackers in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

An opportunity to express your sympathy to the family will also be arranged at Magagnosc, France. Further information will follow.

Hangar Board and Teachers

Model drawing by candle light...

Last Monday we had an extra Model Drawing session because Pim, though on the mend, is not yet working 100%. We used the time to do an experiment that actually worked out so well that we are going to repeat it coming Monday - drawing by candle light... The challenge is that not only you see less of what you are doing, you see also much less of the model. But what you see is touched by a warm and soft light... And everyone was much more able to concentrate and see and draw 'the light'. The results? Poetic! and very good:

Moving Models

Live drawing on Monday 20 February

Last Model drawing session we started with a new kind of 'warming up'. We usually start with a couple of very quick poses, where our model stands still for a minute and then assumes another pose.

This time we kept the minute, but our model Melissandre turned a little bit after each minute, where the idea was to superimpose the drawings. There are various versions as result, but everyone participated and felt it was a good exercise! We will definitely repeat it next time - and then our model will not turn but move slightly. Imagine the difficulty for your brain: 'catch the pose' in a minute and keep track of the movement...

Below some of the drawings - they are not made with the intention to create beautiful pictures - but for study purposes! And they still 'move' don't you think?!

Neville Moray

Marijke van Schijndel

Wim Teunissen

Lucia Gualtirie

Sandra Seymour-Dale

Claudie X

Georgie Hole

FYI: the idea for the superimposing comes from an excellent book, recommended to me by Neville. It contains 20-something very interesting drawing exercises. I have ordered it and will from time to time 'steal' some of the ideas - of course not without mentioning the source:

"Drawing Projects: An Exploration of the Language of Drawing"
by Mick Maslen. The paperback version costs £14.74

OK - and then of course we also drew longer poses, below two that I happened to take a picture of:

Betty Schep

Marij van Schijndel

Live Model drawing - Marina Kulik - 17/01/2011

Last Monday we had a fantastic session with a small group drawing our full-bodied model Carolyn. The only thing that didn't work with us (but what else would you expect in the South of France) was the sun! It shone so bright through the windows, that even our spotlights were too weak to make the shadows dissappear... you can see it in some of the other pictures too - but apart from that it was a wonderful morning... we worked hard, drawing several 'two-minute' poses...

Neville Moray drawing fast

and two longer ones of around half an hour... Click the pictures to enlarge them...

Marijke van Schijndel at work

Neville Moray at work

Sandra Seymour-Dale at work

Virginie Bertoluzzi  at work

Sue Ellis at work

As you can see the concentration is deep and when we are finished the participants are usually content - and exhausted. If you are interested to participate, drop me (Marina Kulik) an email!

Drawing Class - Pim de Jongh - 10/1/11

"A classic, horizontal still life composition"

Monday morning the participants of Pim's drawing class created drawings of one of Pim's fab white still lives:

They had to use simple led pencils and not too much contrast between the subject and its background was allowed. “Morandi-style”
Here's an impression of the work, created by Anton Dikken, Betty Schep, Brigitte Jansen, Joop Kulik, Joop van der Zon, Lucia Gualtieri, Marijke van Schijndel and Neville Moray:

A modern approach to a classic still life - 6 December 2010

Last Monday: deep concentration in the drawing group...

Pim had announced "a modern approach to a classic still life - work with heavy lines and overlap the objects, so that diamond shapes will appear, to give your work a strong graphical quality"  It sounded exciting - but I didn't completely get it...

The "classic still life" was beautiful enough...

However, after Pim's explanation on the blackboard it became clear what he meant with the modern graphical approach in heavy lines ! And the results - after 2 hours of hard and concentrated work were truly impressive - look for yourself:

Brigitte Jansen

Betty Schep

Joop van der Zon

Marijke van Schijndel

  Visitor Marloes van Schijndel - o yes, Holland's got talent!!

Neville Moray (not surprisingly) loved the excercise and created two versions

And as always the morning ended with a clear and interesting evaluation of the achievements - by Pim...