Showing posts with label the human body. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the human body. Show all posts

Monday, March 28, 2011

inability to know

no matter how far i stray, how many different things i learn and experience, i always come back to the human body. something about it makes me stumble around, lurking, leisurely questioning it's ability to function. wonder & awe, really, is what it comes down to. i don't get it. i don't understand it. it makes my heart stop, my throat choke up, and even some version of butterflies in my stomach. it's the inability to know and understand that keeps me wondering.


organ - function - blood flow - muscles - cells - cancer 
it always comes back to cancer & disease - anything foreign within the body - good verses bad.

i get that far, then i get stuck on how to depict a group of cells, and not making it look like a giraffe, a pile of speckled stones, or some smashed blueberries (however, smashed fruit might be a great venture to go on this summer).  but this time, i think i may be on to something:

my lines and patterns were right in front of me the whole time... and i think that they might work. what do you think? it's obviously a rough sketch - the heart is just a shape - but do you think it could become something?
enjoy your monday, 
- k.

Friday, November 12, 2010

three parts

about three months ago i started buying old photos - from the 1800's & early 1900's - so i could draw on them. partially to learn the human body better, but secondly, because i really like the concept of seeing a body in every aspect - skin, bones, muscle, etc.

however, with those really great photos, came countless amounts of baby photos - which really just makes me look like a creep if i draw skeletons & muscles over children. thats wrong, right?

so, drawing over them has become a quick way to prep for drawing & painting... here's what i've got:
all images ©kbaergen
any questions? email kamariebaergen@gmail.com

enjoy your friday,
- k.
ps. listening to The Black Keys today. so good, so perfect for a friday.