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This sketch is the eighteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Eighteen: For some reason a bowl of citrus fruit popped into my head. Could it be that tomorrow is Paul Cézanne’s birthday? This is not after any work by Cézanne, but is entirely imaginary.
Also tagged fruit, still lifeincomplete
This sketch is the seventeenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Seventeen: This unfinished drawing is a detail from a fresco excavated from a villa in Boscareale (near Vesuvius). The painting is now in the National Archeological Museum in Naples. In the original, she’s not […]
Also tagged ancient, face, redface from the black
This sketch is the twelfth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Twelve: Back to the master of “The Scream.” This sketch is after a detail in a lithograph by Munch titled “Jealousy” (1896). Yes, he’s the jealous one, though in the print his eyes are […]
Also tagged black, face, gray, munch, whitetribute to munch
This sketch is the ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Nine: My scramble to sketch the first thing in front of me at midnight last night, led me to slaughter a woodcut by Edvard Munch. This more careful study of my favorite print of […]
Also tagged black, gray, munch, whiteencounter in space
This sketch is the eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Eight: Super fast sketch inspired by a woodcut by Edvard Munch titled “Encounter in Space.” The true encounter for me was not in space, but time, when I realized at 12:05 AM that I […]
Also tagged black, gray, munch, whitelittle study after Dürer
This sketch is the seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Seven: Bird’s wing and a bit of the skull face, finger painted and (poorly) copied after Dürer’s engraving, Coat of Arms with a Skull. Dürer hated copiers, which he called “envious thieves.” You bet […]
Also tagged bird, black, Dürer, gray, skull, white, winghead of the charles rower guy
This sketch is the sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Six: Sometimes, when you’re trying to make a new program create the colors you want, it’s best to just use black and white. This is a finger-painted sketch after the woodcut-like rower that’s been […]
Also tagged abstract, black, whitestill life with pit fruit and glass vase
This sketch is the fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Four: I love 1st-century Roman frescos: still life paintings long before the Dutch, and apparently clear glass a 1000 years or so before Murano. Their loveliness, unusually preserved by the natural disaster of Vesuvius […]
Also tagged ancient, still lifeOde to the color of Thomas Moran (sailboat in the basino)
This sketch is the third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Three: It’s not about line, it’s about color. Extra points to anyone who can tell me what the salmon-colored line represents. On a side note: I’m totally humbled by this guy’s iPad finger painting. […]
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