Music: Nena "99 Luftballoons" These are drawings I made in Berlin at the Berggruen, the Altes Museum, and the Gemäldegalerie. I love drawing in museums. It is as close to performance art as I will ever come. At the Berggruen it was immensely satisfying abstracting a Picasso pastel, in my own style, while sitting in front of his work. It was less satisfying listening to some jerk behind me bragging to his two friends about his personal art collection and how much everything he owned was worth. Also at the Berggruen, I drew from a photograph of Meret Oppenheim (a wildly creative artist in her own right) by Man Ray. I used Prismacolor colored pencils even though I find the medium tedious and frustrating. At the Altes Museum (Old Museum) I had the privilege to draw this sculpture of a Hellenistic Ruler from 150 BCE that was found in Miletus (Turkey) in 1903. It was incredible to draw from a marble bust carved 2,200 years ago. The drawing from Peter Paul Rubens' "Bildnis Einer Frau" or "Portrait of a Woman" was from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, as was the rest of the works in my video. This was my favorite museum to visit in Berlin for it contained the Old Master Paintings I so dearly love (and the food in their cafeteria was amazing). And how often can you draw in front of a Rubens painting while Italian students on a field trip take your picture? I love Berlin: the parks, the museums, and the architecture. But I was there in February and the weather?...not so much. I got a sinus infection 4 days into my trip.

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