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{ Monthly Archives } November 2011

study for a visual idea

Day three hundred and twenty-four: Today’s sketch is a study for part of a composition I thought of this morning. I have no real words to say about it, and so I think I’ll let the image speak for itself.

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2011 11 20 quick study Comments (0)

my red fuji

Day three hundred and twenty-three: A couple of days ago, I imitated a color woodcut of Mount Fuji in Japan. This afternoon, while browsing through travel photos, I came across a couple shots of the mountain as seen from Tokyo at sunset. Very different from the 19th-century version, with the sprawling, modern city laid out […]

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sketch after James Castle

Day three hundred and twenty-two: Today I spent a couple of hours looking at small books made by the self taught artist, James Castle. This sketch imitates one of the figures that appears repeatedly on the tiny, brittle pages, and is often cloaked in a quilt-like pattern of checks and spots.

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2011 11 18 artist tribute
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study after Hokusai’s Red Fuji

Day three hundred and twenty-one: This afternoon I had the pleasure of spending a little time with an expert on Japanese prints who was visiting from Washington D.C. We looked at an example of “Red Fuji” in the PMA’s collection, which turns out to be a very fine, early impression of the classic color woodcut […]

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2011 11 17 artist tribute
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study after an etching by Hans Lautensack

Day three hundred and twenty: This afternoon I was delighted to see an etching by German artist Hans Lautensack (1524 – 1566) is part of the PMA’s collection. I’m particularly fond of the style of pine trees that appear in prints by Lautensack, which imitate those by Albrecht Altdorfer of the s0-called Danube school. I […]

2011 11 16 artist tribute
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ink and wash study

Day three hundred and nineteen: Tonight I felt like playing with ink and wash in an old master style. So I found an 18th-century drawing in the Thrivent Financial Collection, and tried to imitate a small part of it. What you see here is the head and shoulders of Joseph, as drawn by the Venetian […]

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2011 11 15 artist tribute
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study of illuminated manuscript

Day three hundred and eighteen: Since I usually work with prints, I guess I’ve tended to make sketches after them. There are, however, illuminated manuscripts in the collection at work, which date to a time before printing. At least in the West (the Chinese were using woodblocks for printing as early as the 9th century). […]

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landscape of the daily sketch

Day three hundred and seventeen: With no plan to draw any particular subject, I started to doodle a bit of what was sitting right in front of me. This is the typical view I see while making the daily sketch. Lately, Caprica has decided to be involved (entangled?) in the process, and either pokes around […]

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runway at dawn

Day three hundred and sixteen: This is where the sketches all began. Last December I was in an airplane leaving Minneapolis at the break of day, and found myself thinking about my friend Sara’s daily sketches. I started doodling what I could see out the window with a pencil, and made a note of the […]

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study after Mauricio Lasansky

Day three hundred and fifteen: On Friday afternoons we’ve been hosting a printmaking class in the study room. Today we were looking at some prints by Mauricio Lasansky, and one in particular caught my attention. This sketch is a study of a small detail from one of his intaglio prints, for which the copper plate […]

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2011 11 11 artist tribute
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