This sketch is the one hundred and first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and one: Yep, you guessed it: geometry in my math for the GRE class this evening. I thought this diagram in the text book could have used some color […]
Also tagged abstractThis sketch is the one hundredth(!) in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred: This sketch in oil was inspired by a photo that a friend of mine posted on Facebook. I liked the light in the pic a lot and wanted to play with […]
Also tagged figure studyThis sketch is the ninety-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-seven: This quick sketch is inspired by Edvard Munch’s oil painting “Night in St. Cloud” at the National Gallery in Oslo. Painted in 1890, Munch’s original is more rich with subtle shades of color […]
Also tagged art on art, munch, nocturneThis sketch is the ninety-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-six: Yesterday’s workout made my legs extremely sore today, especially my quadriceps. I can barely walk down the stairs without wincing. The idea of drawing my leg muscles led me back to Vesalius’s anatomical […]
Also tagged art on art, figure study, pencilThis sketch is the ninety-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-five: One more day looking at old woodcuts. This skull is modeled after a skeleton depicted in the 1543 edition of an early anatomical atlas written by Andreas Vesalius titled, De humani fabrica libri […]
Also tagged art on art, face, pencil, skullThis sketch is the ninety-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-four: Continuing the woodcut theme for a second day, this pine tree is based on one by German printmaker Albrecht Altdorfer. It’s from a series of forty tiny woodcuts narrating “The Fall and Redemption […]
Also tagged art on art, black, landscapeThis sketch is the ninety-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-three: Paging through a book about the woodcut in 15th-century Europe, I browsed upon one of Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem from c. 1440-1445 with traces of faded color. The mule caught my eye. In […]
Also tagged animal, art on art, pastelThis sketch is the ninety-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-two: Today’s rapid sketch continues the ancient Roman sculptural theme, but this time looks at Roman fresco painting. This slightly pudgy figure with stubby feet is based on a fragment from Ercolano, now in […]
Also tagged ancient, art on art, figure study, sculptureThis sketch is the ninety-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-one: I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the result of yesterday’s drawing, though I thoroughly enjoyed studying the bronze and playing with the colors to create a sense of patina. Today, I have made a […]
Also tagged art on art, face, sculptureThis sketch is the eighty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-nine: A week or so ago as Spring seemed to have overtaken Winter, I made a drawing of receding snow and budding plants. Then it snowed another foot. Today I noticed some little sprigs […]
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