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Amazing find! An image of a sketchbook page of Joan Miro, along with a transcription of the text. Which reminds me of my trip to Barcelona this year (Miro’s museum on photo below; the colors thanks to the slides and not PS-ed!).

In clockwise order:

woman on a beach, this
figure is too realistic, make
use of symbols-signs-
to interpret it, like in 1940

in the face violently red cheeks
like those of a cheap doll

white background

in some spots, like the head, make use of a very violent black contour

this cloud is too realistic. interpret the clouds with
the poetic symbols of 1940. so that these canvases have
a “fauve” spirit, but within the poetic (field) so that
they recall in a certain way the good canvasses by matisse.
but going beyond them and more furiously “fauve”.

the color of the
figure can perfectly,
in some places, be that
of the background

black line will be
separated from color
by a band of
canvass not filled-in

in some spots
reinforce black line

for the background
put color directly
on canvas and spread
it with hand, rag, fist,
sponge, and so forth

(via airform archives)

This man goes even further: Dutch artist Ben Kruisdijk makes drawings on x-ray images. Kruisdijk was a student at the academy when he took his first experiments with Röntgen photos and by now his photos can be described as “drawing x-ray photography hybrids” or as he calls them “Röntgen Etchings”.
They are very expressive, sometimes horrible, and include tumors, broken bones and the like, but also fantastic animal hand drawings.

(via cultcase)