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Dancing Brush

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Drawing with ink and brush has a fluidity that captures the energy of motion.  The brush is sensitive to the slightest variations in pressure, rendering lines that have varying weight and dimension.  I have long favored this medium for movement drawing, where there is no time to develop the image through shading, color and details.  [...]

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Rhythmic Line

Sunday, February 7, 2010

A sense of rhythm is as central to the art of drawing as it is to music.  It is the movement of the artist’s hand that gives a drawing its sense of movement and life.  Strokes that are fluid and responsive imbue a sketch with vitality.
I run a session at Spring Studio in Manhattan, where [...]

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Give Me a Minute or Two

Friday, January 22, 2010

A typical traditional life drawing class starts with quick poses, one or two minutes each, and then proceeds to progressively longer poses.  Some people call quick poses “warm-ups”, reflecting the idea that a drawing session is like a workout.  For the artist, responding as quickly as possible limbers up the hand-eye coordination.  For the model, [...]

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Cross Pollination at Green Space

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Before going into the subject of this post, I will mention that this Saturday I will be exhibiting artwork and performing at “Summer Magic”, the fifth-anniversary fundraiser event for CRS, an important supporter of butoh dance, movement theater and healing arts in New York.  Info here.
Choreographer Valerie Green’s lovely Green Space Studio in Long [...]

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Shadows

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Shadows from Fred Hatt on Vimeo.
In 2007, I created this performance at CRS with butoh performer Corinna Brown.  Corinna was previously seen here in the post Emergence.  The music is a live improvisation by Dan Fabricatore on upright bass.
This is a shadowplay and a painting performance.  The use of shadows on a translucent screen allows [...]

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