This 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-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-nine: Fraction homework. On the page are all the calculations I could not do in my head when adding 16 3/8 + 4 4/5 + 12 3/4 + 23 5/6. The nice thing is […]
Tagged cartoon, oil, pencil, still lifeThis 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, oilThis 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 seventy-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-one: I won’t go into detail about why I drew a bird, a cello, and a clock today. Suffice to say they were all on my mind for one dull reason or another. Still […]
Tagged abstract, pencil, woodcut