Day two hundred and twenty-three: August 11th is my birthday, and I had a wonderful time. No big party or special dinner, but I certainly didn’t mind. I got to do everything I love to do: work at my awesome job, eat my favorite lunch, bike around Philadelphia, and enjoy dinner and a TV show […]
Tagged allegory, animal, bird, food, oilDay two hundred and twenty-two: There’s a patio off of the cafeteria in the building where I work, and the museum staff often gather there for lunch. Today, after enjoying a salad, peaches, and berries, I sat back and felt a warm, relaxing summer breeze. I commented that it was perfect weather to lay in […]
Tagged landscape, pencilDay two hundred and twenty-one: The general rules of those making daily drawings, state that the they can be anything, even just a scribble or line, as long as it gets done. I usually do much more than that, but tonight I got a later start than usual. More ready for bed than a drawing […]
Tagged animal, art on art, pencilDay two hundred and twenty: My work to catalog the illustrations in a copy of a 1628 Dutch book about Haarlem continues. While looking closely at one etching, I was taken by the charming houses along the city’s market square. There was, upon taking up the digital pencil, more precision and detail required than I […]
Tagged architecture, pencilDay two hundred and nineteen: After I painted my favorite beach in Costa Rica the other day, my dad sent me a couple photos of his favorite beach in Tonga, where he and my mom are stationed as Peace Corps volunteers. This is a study of one of them. I particularly liked the deep grays […]
Tagged landscape, oil, pastel, waterDay two hundred and eighteen: Keeping it simple after a productive day of errands and house chores, I thought I’d quickly sketch up a few of my favorite vegetables these days. Visiting the Rittenhouse Square market on Saturday mornings is a great way to start the weekend. On a whim today, I added a couple […]
Tagged food, still lifeDay two hundred and seventeen: After several days of black and white pencil sketches, when I pondered what I should draw today, the first thing that came to mind was COLOR. Then I remembered what I have been calling my favorite beach in the world: the stretch of sand between Carate and the Corcovado National […]
Tagged landscape, nature, oil, pastel, waterDay two hundred and sixteen: I was invited to my first dinner party in Philadelphia! My co-worker, Eliza, and her husband invited me to a little dinner party they had. It was delicious and fun, but I found myself home later than when I usually finish my sketch. Wiped out, and without a subject, I […]
Tagged pencil, self portraitDay two hundred and fifteen: This morning one of the curators asked the fellows (me and Brooks) if we could take a look at a Dutch book by Samuel Ampzing in praise of the city of Haarlem, and published in 1628. There are many engraved illustrations throughout the text, made by the notable printmakers like […]
Tagged book, pencil, self portraitDay two hundred and fourteen: I’ve encountered a couple of impressions from Katsushika Hokusai’s color woodcut series “36 Views of Mount Fuji” (circa 1820s) at work the last few weeks. When I poke about my computer for travel photos of things to draw, I usually run across one I took in 2004 of Mount Fuji […]
Tagged cameron, landscape, mountain, pencil