This sketch is the fifty-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-eight: I promised myself a few sketches ago that I would periodically work on my draftsmanship of human figures. So I dug out an anatomical guide for artists and started with a hand because […]
Tagged anatomy, hand, 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-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-three: Sometimes simple is just as satisfying. Not a lot of time today, and I wasn’t sure what I was going to draw. Sat down to sketch and suddenly thought “white on black.” Then […]
Tagged black, food, pencil, still life, whiteThis sketch is the fifty-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-two: Since snow-related parking restrictions began earlier this winter, an old yellow truck has appeared frequently on my block. I suspect its owner must live on a neighboring street, but has been forced by […]
Tagged oil, pencil, winter, yellowThis 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 fiftieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty: Wasn’t sure what to draw, but wanted to work on a study of still water. Started in oil, but wasn’t in the mood to mess with color. Pencil was just the thing to […]
Tagged landscape, nature, pencil, waterThis sketch is the forty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-nine: Yesterday morning, when I drove through Wisconsin, the fog was remarkably thick, and sometimes I could only see a few meters ahead of my car. This sketch is my impression from memory of […]
Tagged fog, oil, white, winterThis 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-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, oilThis sketch is the forty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-five: Fellow 365-day sketcher, Sara, creates awesome pictures in which figures and objects emerge from darkness. This mask was inspired by some mask-like faces in a drawing of hers from a couple days ago […]
Tagged face, oil, still life, white