“The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr.“ Time lapse recording of drawing process. Oleg Lipchenko©

“The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr...“ graphite pencil on paper, 16”X13”, 2023, Oleg Lipchenko© Time lapse recording of drawing process. This drawing was created as an improvisation being impressed by “The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr together with a fragmentary Biography of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler on Random Sheets of Waste Paper“ written by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German romantic writer. Let’s see how the improvisation started - as always, from tabula rasa. I recorded the entire drawing process and then shrink the footage down to a few minutes. E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann is a German writer, composer and artist, one of the most influential creators of romanticism. He is widely famous for The Nutcracker (thanks to Tchaikovsky ballet) and The Sandman, but his other novels and stories, such as Murr the Cat or Little Zaches, are relatively unknown. Images, figures, faces, various details, lines and sy