Werner Zimmermann

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Christmas Decorations

This year I am determined to do at least one study a day of the decorations. It's a beautiful time around here. Work is keeping me from getting lights out but there's a tree in the shed waiting to come in, the Nutcracker is back up in the balcony in his house and hopefully I [...]

By | 2008-12-12T20:44:00+00:00 December 12th, 2008|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Mooos and Mooses

Been busy drawing since the last post. The Royal Winter Fair is always a treat, especially if you wait until the evening when the kids are gone, and it seems to settle into more of a farm feeling that showy exhibition feeling of hype. When things got quiet I found a nice bale of hay [...]

By | 2008-11-25T04:29:00+00:00 November 25th, 2008|Uncategorized|1 Comment

Remembrance day 2008

Remembrance day today.this sketch is of the Cenotaph here in Guelph. It was done while waiting for the parade of soldiers and Vets. I mistakenly assumed there would be a ceremony there. Instead, after the ceremony at the sports arena, the Vets, the cadets, the police and fire fighters marched by. It gave me time [...]

By | 2018-06-09T18:35:27+00:00 November 11th, 2008|Drawing, Object Studies|1 Comment

Arctic Memory

I received an email from a friend who owns this painting. She was kind to send a picture of it to me. It holds a very special connection to me. It was done when I was still and advisor to the Inuit printmakers in what is now Nunavik (arctic Quebec).I decided to post it because [...]

By | 2018-06-09T18:37:12+00:00 November 3rd, 2008|Drawing, Landscapes|0 Comments

some drawings

studies from yesterday in the studio. Not the greatest day, far too many scribbles and not enough hitting it right away. When I was drawing the hand on the thigh my thoughts went to a Bernini sculpture I saw at Villa Borghese in Rome, one in which Bernini managed to capture the pressure of the [...]

By | 2008-10-30T13:43:00+00:00 October 30th, 2008|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Royal Winter Fair Time

It's now officially fall and I'm thinking ahead to the Royal Winter Fair in November. I am so bound by calendars these days with deadlines and commitments that it doesn't seem there is time time breathe. So when I was looking at November and felt there was something missing, it finally occurred to me that [...]

By | 2018-06-09T18:40:12+00:00 September 24th, 2008|Animal Studies, Drawing|0 Comments

Drawing workout

This week I had Ed Cz into the studio for some drawing that was a bit overdue. Over the next 5 hours Ed offered excellent poses and for me, over 150 studies and drawings later, a terrific feeling of exhilaration that one gets after a great work out.For the first 3 hrs we had rapid [...]

By | 2008-09-20T19:56:00+00:00 September 20th, 2008|Uncategorized|0 Comments

fun with skeletons

that sort of sounds strange, but I did have fun yesterday when with an hour to kill in the studio, I started drawing a skeleton for practice and ended up with this group of laughing bones. Because of the angle of the teeth in the skull, it always seems if skeletons are smiling. Odd to [...]

By | 2008-09-11T19:51:00+00:00 September 11th, 2008|Uncategorized|0 Comments