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Teachers & Influencers in Drawing #2: Felix Topolski
Posted on April 24, 2021October 16, 2023

Teachers & Influencers in Drawing #2: Felix Topolski

Here’s a crazy guy. Look at these drawings! I wonder what he was like in person, was he as obsessive as his frantic drawing style suggests? His mile-a-minute brain in action, observation skills in fourth gear, his pencil never leaving the paper, one continuous line all over until the sheet is filled with lively figures, … Continue reading Teachers & Influencers in Drawing #2: Felix Topolski

Teachers & Influencers in Drawing #1: Otto Dicke
Posted on April 5, 2021October 16, 2023

Teachers & Influencers in Drawing #1: Otto Dicke

I was not happy at Art School in the late ‘sixties. The obsession with then-current edge Abstract Expressionism did not interest me at all: I was already into drawing from ‘real life’ at that time and still am now. So I didn’t feel I belonged. I was never very good at facing a blank canvas, … Continue reading Teachers & Influencers in Drawing #1: Otto Dicke

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