Day one hundred and sixty-three: I know this sketch is morbid, but a conversation with some friends this evening reminded me of an etching that the Belgian avant-garde artist James Ensor made in 1888 called “My Portrait in 1960.” In it, he imagined himself at the age of 100 as a skeleton. My sketch does […]
Tagged allegory, art on art, ensor, self portrait, skullDay one hundred and forty-nine: Today’s little sketch is a study of part of a sculpture titled “Paradox” by Kate Christopher. In the sculpture there is a second figure looking down. Tomorrow I’m starting a 10-day trip to Peru, and I’m trying to decide whether I should take my computer and digital drawing pad, or […]
Tagged figure study, oil, sculptureDay one hundred and forty-seven: Every time I finish a sketch it feels like a miracle has just occurred. Today’s drawing is a study of a sculpture titled “Thunder and Lightning” by Minnesota artist Paul Granlund. I love the balance of the intertwining male and female figures. The style I used doesn’t quite capture the […]
Tagged art on art, figure study, pencil, sculptureDay one hundred and thirty-four: I had to get something in under the wire tonight, so I grabbed the business card of an artist and mimicked the charcoal style on the back as quickly as possible. Kay Fenton is a senior at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and this sketch imitates a […]
Tagged abstract, art on art, black, charcoal, grayDay one hundred and thirty-one: A late evening discussion in the Thrivent Financial Religious Art Gallery about George Bellows’ painting of The Crucifixion reminded me that I wanted to sketch this figure from one of his prints. The male nude appears in a 1923 lithograph titled Christ of the Wheel. I chose it because of […]
Tagged art on art, charcoal, figure studyDay one hundred and thirty: Today I was cataloging prints at work, which means I get to look at amazing works on paper while I key data about them into a computer database. A sweetly sleeping cat on a pillow in the lower left corner of an intaglio print by the 16th-century artist Federico Barocci […]
Tagged animal, art on art, pen and ink, pencilThis sketch is the one hundred and twenty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and twenty-three: This evening I was talking with some friends, and couldn’t take my eyes off an acquaintance’s fantastic shirt with a large angel and serpent-person creature. It appeared […]
Tagged art on art, figure study, pencilThis sketch is the one hundred and twentieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and twenty: In honor of the last day of “Venice on Paper,” a show of prints and drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, today’s sketch is based on […]
Tagged architecture, art on art, cameron, pencilThis sketch is the one hundred and nineteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and nineteen: Today’s sketch is based on a detail of a marble sculpture at the Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen of Perseus. It was made by Laurent-Honoré Marqueste (1848-1920) in […]
Tagged art on art, face, figure study, pencil, sculptureThis sketch is the one hundred and thirteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and thirteen: My brother, grandmother, aunt, and I went to an Easter vigil at church this evening. Hearing the story of Christ’s resurrection reminded me of a woodcut version […]
Tagged art on art, Dürer, figure study, pencil