This sketch is the ninety-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-eight: Whoops! Getting this posted just under the wire. I am preparing a paper to present next Friday at an art history conference, a project which has distracted me all evening. So in a […]
Tagged cartoon, pen and ink, self portraitThis sketch is the ninety-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-seven: This quick sketch is inspired by Edvard Munch’s oil painting “Night in St. Cloud” at the National Gallery in Oslo. Painted in 1890, Munch’s original is more rich with subtle shades of color […]
Tagged art on art, munch, nocturne, oilThis sketch is the ninety-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-six: Yesterday’s workout made my legs extremely sore today, especially my quadriceps. I can barely walk down the stairs without wincing. The idea of drawing my leg muscles led me back to Vesalius’s anatomical […]
Tagged art on art, figure study, oil, pencilThis sketch is the ninety-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-five: One more day looking at old woodcuts. This skull is modeled after a skeleton depicted in the 1543 edition of an early anatomical atlas written by Andreas Vesalius titled, De humani fabrica libri […]
Tagged art on art, face, oil, pencil, skullThis sketch is the ninety-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-four: Continuing the woodcut theme for a second day, this pine tree is based on one by German printmaker Albrecht Altdorfer. It’s from a series of forty tiny woodcuts narrating “The Fall and Redemption […]
Tagged art on art, black, landscape, oilThis sketch is the ninety-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-three: Paging through a book about the woodcut in 15th-century Europe, I browsed upon one of Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem from c. 1440-1445 with traces of faded color. The mule caught my eye. In […]
Tagged animal, art on art, oil, pastelThis sketch is the ninety-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-two: Today’s rapid sketch continues the ancient Roman sculptural theme, but this time looks at Roman fresco painting. This slightly pudgy figure with stubby feet is based on a fragment from Ercolano, now in […]
Tagged ancient, art on art, figure study, oil, sculptureThis sketch is the ninetieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety: This evening I attended a lecture at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts about sculpture and the sculptural in Renaissance painting. The topic begged, of course, for me to paint a sculpture for today’s […]
Tagged ancient, art on art, sculptureThis sketch is the eighty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-nine: A week or so ago as Spring seemed to have overtaken Winter, I made a drawing of receding snow and budding plants. Then it snowed another foot. Today I noticed some little sprigs […]
Tagged nature, oil, springThis sketch is the eighty-eight in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-eight: This evening I had the pleasure of attending my friend Dan’s birthday party at the restaurant Buca in Minneapolis. The meal concluded with a rousing song and a delicious carrot cake. I love […]
Tagged food, oil, still life