This sketch is the forty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-three: Some days I just need to get the sketch done, and today has been one of them. This standing buddha was rapidly sketched in pencil after a tiny silver statue that I have.
Tagged figure study, pencil, sculpture, still lifeThis sketch is the forty-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-two: Quick self portrait of me in my home office. The art history book for which I am a contributing author is under going a second round of proof editing. This is me figuratively […]
Tagged pen and ink, self portraitThis sketch is the forty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-one: At Kowalski’s I sometimes like to get a sushi sampler as a treat. It’s quite fresh because there a little sushi station in the deli area, and a man makes it on the […]
Tagged abstract, art on art, food, oil, still lifeThis sketch is the fortieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty: I’d like to say this was a plein-air painting, but that would mean I wasn’t in Minnesota today, which I am. Not that winter is really so unbearable, but I must admit that […]
Tagged landscape, nature, oil, waterThis sketch is the thirty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-nine: Since I have a cold it seemed fitting to draw a still life of the objects I’ve looked at most often today. The style I ended up using reminds me a bit of […]
Tagged abstract, art on art, oil, still lifeThis sketch is the thirty-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-eight: These two male figures sitting back to back form one of 36 figure groups in the “Monolith Plateau” of Frogner Park in Oslo, Norway. The park is filled with stone and bronze sculptures […]
Tagged art on art, face, pencil, sculpture, stoneThis sketch is the thirty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-seven: This sketch is an abstracted reinvention of a fresco fragment painted c. 54-68 CE in the Villa di Arianna in Stabiae. The fresco of the sea nymph on her horse was preserved by […]
Tagged ancient, art on art, figure study, oilThis sketch is the thirty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-six: Tonight is the opening night gala of “Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. My exhibition, “Venice on Paper,” is showing in conjunction with the Titian […]
Tagged art on art, figure study, pencil, self portraitThis sketch is the thirty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-five: My schedule today was jammed and I ended up at work with some long periods when I couldn’t leave, but had almost nothing to do. So I decided to get my sketch done, […]
Tagged birdThis sketch is the thirty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-four: I know this is sorta lame, but I didn’t have a lot of time today for sketching. Plus I want to figure out how to create a robust field of prairie grasses. The […]
Tagged nature