Giving Birth to Death by Laurie Lipton
Laurie Lipton was born in New York and began drawing at the age of four. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986.
Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the USA. Lipton was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. She tried to teach herself how to paint in the style of the 17th century Dutch Masters and failed. When traveling around Europe as a student, she began developing her very own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. “It’s an insane way to draw”, she says, “but the resulting detail and luminosity is worth the amount of effort”.
feroze13 said:
Awesome.
October 12th, 2009 at 07:33
Gon said:
fantastic work, great choice!
October 12th, 2009 at 10:20
shirin said:
i love them too; each image seems to tell the story of an outside- and inside-world. also i love the modesty of the pencil as a contrast to the very detailed and rich subjects.
October 12th, 2009 at 10:35
leslie ditto said:
All of them are just amazing, but the Asian woman with the baby has been a favorite of mine, it really blows me away. You are a master at drawing!
October 13th, 2009 at 07:15
jittagarn said:
ohhhhhh!!!
Very cool! I Sincerely Drawing you. And creative, very impressive.
October 28th, 2009 at 00:48
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