Eva Hesse Drawings

Around the middle of this year within my practices I came across an Artist called Eva Hesse and her work immediately connected to me and I really wanted to look up her work which then inspired me to create a lot of my end of year pieces which I'm the most proud of. 

While I was looking at a lot of different works of Eva Hesse I came across Eva Hesse's drawings which really made me stand back because they reminded me of my own style of drawing when I'm drawing down my ideas. This to me is very interesting because Hesse died sadly in 1970 and she was drawing her idea well before I was born, but we both ended up doing similar type of drawings.

Eva Hesse's drawings from her Journal

What interests and what I have found out about Eva Hesse, which is similar to me is they way the drawing a very simple line drawings which that a lot of detail to them because most of the detail is within the artist head and just like Hesse, the piece creates itself through the process so that when the detail comes.

Photo of my idea drawings

When I look at the bottom left of Hesse's drawings I can see a similar drawing, but a completely different piece to my bottom drawn piece. 

Image of Eva Hesse drawing

What I found really interesting about this drawing is the fact that it really looks like the final piece Repetition nineteen III 1968 that Hesse made from this drawing.

Image of Eva Hesse piece Repetition nineteen III 1968

Hesse was able to create the right blends and everything within her final piece that was within the drawing.

Photo of my drawings

When I was looking through a lot of Eva Hesse's pieces I really loved her Untitled (Rope) 1969-70 through the natural freeness and movement in her piece and my top drawing from my final piece was based on her piece. I really feel that look at Hesse's work has really opened myself again to be more creative and made new and unique pieces.

Image of Untitled (rope) 1969-70

Image of Eva Hesse drawing/plan

Image of Eva Hesse drawing/plan

Image of Eva Hesse drawing/plan

I just love the beauty of something so simple as a drawing for an idea, every time I look at any artist work I'm always thinking of what their drawings looked like because I love the little story or that burst of inspiration has been put on a page. I know when I get an idea and draw it down it make me feel so happy because I know I'm then going to go on a Journey of the process to make that idea into a real piece of art and I just want to see is that the same for the artist that I look at, but look at and reading about Eva Hesse I know it was similar for her.