Day one hundred and forty-one: All the chatter about rapture this weekend led me to sketch an apocalyptic figure: St. Michael. I’ve toyed with angelic subjects a couple times in the last month or so, always copying versions by other artists. Before the world ends, I thought I should try my hand at one from […]
Tagged conte, figure studyDay one hundred and forty: When I move to Philadelphia, I’ll be living about three blocks from Rittenhouse Square. It’s an utterly charming park, and a perfect place to sit and enjoy a cup of coffee. Today’s sketch is a study for an etching depicting the little glass gazebo that stands in the center of […]
Tagged architecture, landscape, nature, pencilDay one hundred and thirty-nine: I made a couple attempts to sketch concrete subjects this evening, but my mind was simply too drained to concentrate on choosing and mixing colors, or working out a comprehensive subject. So I just started putting color on the canvas, and this is what happened. It seems incredibly flat to […]
Tagged abstractDay one hundred and thirty-eight: After three full days of apartment hunting I’ve narrowed it down to a couple places near Rittenhouse Square. Both are in brick buildings similar to the one I’ve quickly sketched here, but neither is as crooked! The apartment I’m leaning toward is in this particular place on the south side […]
Tagged architecture, pencilDay one hundred and thirty-seven: My friend, Dan K, has been making some nice photos lately. This morning he posted one taken at daybreak in Puerta Vallarta. I liked the dim geometric shapes of the buildings in front of the dusky mountain against a sky just beginning to glow with warmth. The spindly radio towers […]
Tagged architecture, landscape, oilDay one hundred and thirty-six: After a long day I just needed something – anything – to sketch. What you see here is a study of a very worn medieval sculpture (I believe 12th or 13th century), which can be viewed at the Cluny museum in Paris. The headless king has been posing at the […]
Tagged art on art, medieval, pencil, sculptureDay one hundred and thirty-five: This afternoon I visited the National Aquarium in Baltimore, and I snapped a shot of a seahorse with my iPhone. This oil pastel study is based on that photo.
Tagged art on art, oil, waterDay one hundred and thirty-four: I had to get something in under the wire tonight, so I grabbed the business card of an artist and mimicked the charcoal style on the back as quickly as possible. Kay Fenton is a senior at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and this sketch imitates a […]
Tagged abstract, art on art, black, charcoal, grayDay one hundred and thirty-three: Making these daily sketches has become such a quotidian routine, that when I’m traveling it really shakes things up. Did I bring the digital drawing pad? Will I have internet? Where will I set up my computer? What will I draw? Tonight I made this sketch in a Baltimore hotel […]
Tagged nocturne, pencilDay one hundred and thirty-two: I have no idea why I thought I should try making a collage, but somehow there it was. Before starting to sketch, I decided I would use pencil to incorporate artworks that appeared on certain pages of three museum guide books: page 20 of The National Gallery (London), page 30 […]
Tagged art on art, pencil