This sketch is the seventy-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-five: Belgian avant-garde artist, James Ensor, is a favorite of mine. Especially his etchings. I made this drawing of a detail from one of his earliest (1886) and most famous prints, La Cathédrale, from […]
Tagged art on art, ensor, landscape, pencilThis sketch is the seventy-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-four: I must admit I do love some good old-fashioned classicism. This quick sketch explores the classical through the lens of the 19th century, and is loosely based on an angel’s head from a […]
Tagged art on art, face, pencilThis sketch is the seventy-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-three: This drawing emulates an etching and aquatint print made by Emil Bernard in 1935. It is one is a series of 50 images designed to illustrate Victor Hugo’s poem “Le Fin de Satan.” […]
Tagged art on art, figure study, oil, pencilThis sketch is the seventy-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-two: My friend Christopher has been encouraging me to practice figure drawing at a local artists’ coop where one can sketch a live model all Sunday afternoon. I spent a couple of hours there […]
Tagged charcoal, conte crayon, figure study, pencilThis sketch is the seventieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy: Bizarre as it may seem, this drawing was inspired by a highly influential Netherlandish artist of the sixteenth century: Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It brings together details from two drawings by Bruegel. The […]
Tagged art on art, bruegel, pen and inkThis sketch is the sixty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-nine: Well, tonight at 10:00 PM after a long productive day I felt entirely wiped out, but I still hadn’t made a sketch. I didn’t even have the energy pick a subject. While flipping […]
Tagged landscape, pencil, waterThis sketch is the sixty-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-eight: My favorite text message today came from a friend looking for a word that was on the tip of his tongue: “What is the term used for the technique developed by the Greeks […]
Tagged ancient, art on art, athlete, figure study, pencil, sculptureThis 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-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-three: This evening I was taking a math skills assessment to determine what kinds of problems I need to study especially for the GRE. While I got less than the maximum number of problems […]
Tagged abstract, chalkThis sketch is the fifty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-nine: Today I undertook a fascinating exercise to draw a male figure using a technique that maps out anatomical proportion relative to the size of the head. Apparently a whole person is about 7 […]
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