This 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-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-four: This afternoon I was delighted to learn that one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance made some pretty messy drawings, a result of his exploratory approach to composition. Even more pleasing […]
Tagged art on art, charcoal, figure study, titianThis sketch is the sixty-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-two: My friend Christopher posed a little challenge this morning, suggesting Egon Schiele’s “Standing Girl” in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts might make a good drawing exercise. I paged through a […]
Tagged art on art, face, pencil, schieleThis 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, pencilThis sketch is the fifty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-four: I really admire artists who can draw figures doing just about anything. Whole scenes of men fighting or women bathing or both. I’m particularly fond of the ink and wash drawings of Ubaldo […]
Tagged art on art, chalk, figure study, pen and ink, washThis sketch is the fifty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-0ne: This sketch was inspired by my own study of water yesterday, but more importantly a print in my collection by late 19th-century artist Alphonse Legros. He used drypoint and the impression has quite […]
Tagged art on art, landscape, nature, pen and ink, waterThis sketch is the forty-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-eight: I’ve been enjoying the paintings of Franz Marc the last day or so, and wanted to make a little tribute to his expressionist approach to animals. Since it’s very foggy in the Twin […]
Tagged art on art, blaue reiter, horse, marc, winterThis sketch is the forty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-seven: Ok, I admit I totally ripped off this type of cartoon character from my friend Sara, who is also a 365-day sketcher, but I have been DYING to try making a funny strip […]
Tagged cartoon, spring, waterThis sketch is the forty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-six: The last few days I’ve been looking at the paintings of James Ensor, Emil Nolde, and Edvard Munch. This invention of mine, which was a scream to make, is a response to the […]
Tagged abstract, art on art, ensor, face, munch, nolde, oil