This sketch is the one hundred and eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and eight: This evening I attended the final session of my math prep for the GRE course. At one point, as the instructor was working through a problem, it […]
Tagged cartoon, pencilThis sketch is the one hundred and first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and one: Yep, you guessed it: geometry in my math for the GRE class this evening. I thought this diagram in the text book could have used some color […]
Tagged abstract, oilThis sketch is the ninety-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-one: I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the result of yesterday’s drawing, though I thoroughly enjoyed studying the bronze and playing with the colors to create a sense of patina. Today, I have made a […]
Tagged art on art, face, oil, sculptureThis sketch is the eighty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-seven: Three hours in math class inspired the idea of academically constructing perspective and proportion for today’s sketch. As I walked to the parking ramp at the U of M, I decided to use […]
Tagged abstract, pencilThis sketch is the seventy-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-nine: Fraction homework. On the page are all the calculations I could not do in my head when adding 16 3/8 + 4 4/5 + 12 3/4 + 23 5/6. The nice thing is […]
Tagged cartoon, oil, pencil, still lifeThis sketch is the seventy-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-one: I won’t go into detail about why I drew a bird, a cello, and a clock today. Suffice to say they were all on my mind for one dull reason or another. Still […]
Tagged abstract, pencil, woodcutThis sketch is the sixty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-seven: D. Y. Cameron was a Scottish artist who painted and made etched prints of landscapes in his native country. My drawing here was inspired by a picture of Ben Ledi by Cameron in […]
Tagged art on art, cameron, charcoal, landscape, waterThis sketch is the sixty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-six: I was contemplating this quote from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and wanted to create a composition that incorporated the text with an image. This is what happened as I started drawing while thinking about […]
Tagged allegory, art on art, bird, blackThis sketch is the sixty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-five: My friends Dori J. and John D. each sent me a link to http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com, a site where anyone can draw a frame from the video “Ain’t No Grave” by Johnny Cash. This is […]
Tagged art on art, figure study, johnny cash, landscape, waterThis sketch is the sixty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-one: Sometimes at the end of the day when I haven’t made my sketch I have no idea what to draw. A quick flip through a book of prints by Munch is almost always […]
Tagged art on art, charcoal, face, munch, pencil