This sketch is the eighty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-six: Very simple tonight. I just felt like practicing creating forms. This silhouette of a twiggy, flowering shrub is based on a detail from the place mat sitting next to my computer. The background, […]
Tagged black, nature, oil, pencil, spring, still lifeThis sketch is the eighty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-five: Some days, especially when I start my sketching late, I just have to draw what’s on my mind. Tonight I was thinking about fellowship with good friends, and spreading peace and hope in […]
Tagged allegory, animal, bird, pencilThis sketch is the eighty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-four: This is a colored pencil study of Caprica Six, my green-cheeked conure, sitting on the keys of my piano. As parrots go, he’s very tiny at about 64 grams. He’s a busy little […]
Tagged animal, bird, pencilThis sketch is the eighty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-three: I’m repeatedly amazed at how enjoyable sketching can be even when I don’t think I have a drawing in me. Tonight I just starting scribbling, and that got the juices flowing. Then I […]
Tagged ancient, animal, art on art, black, pen and inkThis sketch is the eighty-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-two: In memory of Liz Taylor, here’s a sketch of her with Paul Newman in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (1958). I knew it would be a hard snapshot for me to recreate, […]
Tagged grayscale, oil, pencil, portraitThis sketch is the eighty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-one: I woke up to heavy rain this morning, which came and went all day along with stiff winds. I love the rain, and even though it was cold, was delighted to pull out […]
Tagged oil, pencil, self portrait, spring, waterThis sketch is the eightieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty: My friend Steven suggested I sketch Spring today. I decided to imagine a little landscape where receding snow gives way to sprigs of grass and a handful to tulips pushing up through last […]
Tagged landscape, oil, springThis sketch is the seventy-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-eight: After trying my hand at ancient Greek fresco painting yesterday, I thought it would be fun to play Athenian vase painter today. This drawing is designed after a detail of Ajax carrying the […]
Tagged ancient, art on art, figure study, oilThis sketch is the seventy-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-seven: Today I enjoyed lunch with art history colleague and friend, Andrew H. Last summer we visited ancient ruins in Ercolano, Pompeii, and Paestum, and saw the “Tomb of the Diver,” the only well-preserved […]
Tagged ancient, art on art, figure study, oilThis sketch is the seventy-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-six: While repeatedly stepping and going no where on the Stairmaster at the gym, I began to wonder what I should draw today. I decided to adapt the Stairmaster display into an imaginary landscape, […]
Tagged landscape, oil