This sketch is the one hundred and twentieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and twenty: In honor of the last day of “Venice on Paper,” a show of prints and drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, today’s sketch is based on […]
Tagged architecture, art on art, cameron, pencilThis sketch is the one hundred and nineteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and nineteen: Today’s sketch is based on a detail of a marble sculpture at the Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen of Perseus. It was made by Laurent-Honoré Marqueste (1848-1920) in […]
Tagged art on art, face, figure study, pencil, sculptureThis sketch is the one hundred and eighteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and eighteen: This study is the second in a two-day series about the useful qualities of the natural world. When I cut matte board, I match the pencil line […]
This sketch is the one hundred and seventeenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and seventeen: This afternoon, while carefully adhering pieces of paper to matte board using double stick film, I quickly learned that working with gravity gave the best results. Along […]
Tagged abstract, oilThis sketch is the one hundred and sixteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and sixteen: Travel kept me from finding adequate time to do much more than get this sketch “done.” It’s a spontaneous exploration of randomness and repetition. I started by […]
Tagged abstractThis sketch is the one hundred and fifteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and fifteen: Occasionally I start out with an idea, and my sketch ends up being something very different. Today I had a spontaneous idea, but was nowhere near my […]
Tagged face, oilThis sketch is the one hundred and fourteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and fourteen: Easter weekend has been very wet in Dayton, with overcast skies and long showers prevailing over sunshine. Unlike the Twin Cities, however, Spring has certainly sprung, and […]
Tagged nature, oilThis sketch is the one hundred and thirteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and thirteen: My brother, grandmother, aunt, and I went to an Easter vigil at church this evening. Hearing the story of Christ’s resurrection reminded me of a woodcut version […]
Tagged art on art, Dürer, figure study, pencilThis sketch is the one hundred and twelfth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and twelve: Browsing through photos this evening, I came across one I took in Venice last November of a palazzo at night. When I saw the building in dim […]
Tagged architecture, art on art, oil, venice, waterThis sketch is the one hundred and eleventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and eleven: When visiting my aunt and grandmother in Dayton, Ohio, it is customary, whenever possible, to visit Graeter’s to enjoy some of their delicious ice cream. Tonight, my […]
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