Jirina van Rossum

On Thursday I have a class named: Contemporary drawing. Here we get lectures about artists these days who perform contemporary drawing and we get assignments that will bring us further with drawing and our way of thinking. It is all about what drawing does to people in this society, it is not only used to be there as a sketch for the big painting, it is also a way of thinking, express your thoughts by drawing. Here some studies I have been doing so far  Study of an object that was in classroom, giving it another energy by the way it was drawn. I enjoyed to see what happens with the different kind of lines. At the end of the class we did a round and discussed the works we made. One of the other students said this about my work: I think it is the most interesting work to look at, because it is telling some kind of story. I was flattered to hear this, I like to design some kind of world o...

On Wednesday I am doing the course: 'The basics of relief' First 3 lessons we just printed colours on top of each other to see what happens, we tried it with opaque ink, transparent ink and with overlapping both. It was fascinating to see what you could do with just a few colours and a few shapes.. The print First woodcut, I just wanted to try the tools and decided to make my favourite artist: Egon Schiele ------------------------------------------------------------------- But that was just to experiment, now the real work starts. I have decided to make a woodcut named: 'Zondvloed'  Het woord 'zondvloed', afkomstig van het Middelnederlandse  sintvloed , betekent oorspronkelijk  aanhoudende vloed , maar doordat het volksetymologisch  in verband werd gebracht met het begrip zonde , is het eerste lid vervormd geraakt. Oftewel: In het eerste boek van de Bijbel, Genesis ,  staat h...

On Friday I have drawing class from 09:00 till 17:00. The first class was about making a plan what you are going to do.  This is the plan I made:  It is about a journey, searching for atlantis, the not existing land. I am going to draw the journey and everything that happens while I am/we are on the trip. The pictures above give an impression about what can happen.

The next project I am about to start goes like this: I want to make a closet but not just a normal closet but one that doesn't stand on the ground but hangs on the wall, like a painting.  I do not make shelves in it as well, so the pieces stand just on top of each other.  With pieces I mean the 5 shapes that are used in the 'Tetris game'. I would like to call all the pieces together table ware. Although it are only 5 shapes and they are only good for little dishes, table ware is still the best specification .  The part where it involves my point of view as an artist is that this 'painting' can be reorganised by the owner, and I like the fact that because of all the pieces standing op top of each other you can't take what ever you want you have to find your way through.  The repetition of the shapes make the whole work together a very interesting piece of art to look at. I started by working out the shapes/components in paper to get an impr...

O before I start showing my school work, I will show you a few pictures from when I have been to Lapland. I have made some friends here and with these people I have been on a weekend trip to Lapland, I wanted to do that as soon as possible because of the snow and maybe I could see a glimp of the Northern lights. Well I can tell you already, I haven't seen the Northern lights (sadly), but I will show you some amazing snow Pictures!  This was our cottage we stayed in during the weekend, included a sauna, tv, kitchen and a really nice  bed (because the one in my apartment is not that great) (left) Yeah I have done my first time snowboarding, on this picture I am actually standing but I have been on my butt the most of the time, but I had a great time! And right there is me in Santa village, that is where Santaclaus is hiding when he is not on his sledge to bring around presents.  Some picture taken while I sat in the t...