The tightrope act on top of the head, the potted plant in the pelvis, the reclining body, and the possible chair.

Lesson 6 in the series "How to draw/paint like Paul Klee" — explained here — based on notes I took at an exhibition in London in 2002. What follows, next to each of the 4 bullet points, is text from one page of the book, followed by the image I'd meant to remember in the abstract and to apply, in the concrete reality of a drawing/painting that might resemble the original in some way or not at all.

• draw a tightrope & trapeze act up on top of a woman's head ("Tightrope Walker")



• Draw a vicious plant inside the tormented figure of a woman reaching up at a sprig of 3 cherries ("Pathos of Fertility") Plant is a potted plant — pot = pelvis



• Block city concept done w/ horiz lines slanting back for perspective ("Room Perspective Red/Green")



• Cubes float in space along w/ door/window frames & reclining body & a possible chair — "Uncomposed in Space"



The scanned notebook page:



ADDED: I like the way those 4 images, taken in that sequence, seem to tell the story of a woman. In "Tightrope Walker," we see into the woman's mind as she considers her options and seeks balance. In "Pathos of Fertility," she's opted for pregnancy, and she's struggling but focusing on the fruit (cherries) of her labor. In "Room Perspective Red/Green," she's in the home, trapped as if it's a maze. It's quite dreary, and she needs a way out. Perhaps that arrow (near the kitty cat at the bottom) points the way to the exit. In "Uncomposed in Space," the interior has broken apart, the husband lies defeated on the floor, and the woman stands erect. See her standing there, in a triangle of a skirt, on the right? I didn't notice that in 2002, I don't think. And now I see the 2 flags, in opposite corners, and the woman's flag is brighter and higher. The exit door is quite clear.

AND: There's some talk in the comments about the inaccuracy of color in reproductions, and I tempted to download the images and tweak them to make them easier to see and understand as reproductions, not worrying about approximating originals. I succumbed to the temptation with "Room Perspective," which I thought had an unfortunate dull look in reproduction:



See why I did that? But uploaded, it comes across as gaudier than it looked in iPhoto. Let me tone it down:



I think that is helpful compared to the faithful of reproduction in the original post, which reminds me of the way the whole exhibition was kept dark to preserve the colors and keep the paper from deteriorating. It's almost as if you can never really see these things, which might have something to do with my impulse at the time to translate them into text.