This sketch is the eighty-eight in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-eight: This evening I had the pleasure of attending my friend Dan’s birthday party at the restaurant Buca in Minneapolis. The meal concluded with a rousing song and a delicious carrot cake. I love […]
Also tagged food, still lifeThis sketch is the eighty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-six: Very simple tonight. I just felt like practicing creating forms. This silhouette of a twiggy, flowering shrub is based on a detail from the place mat sitting next to my computer. The background, […]
Also tagged black, nature, pencil, spring, still lifeThis sketch is the eighty-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-two: In memory of Liz Taylor, here’s a sketch of her with Paul Newman in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” (1958). I knew it would be a hard snapshot for me to recreate, […]
Also tagged grayscale, pencil, portraitThis sketch is the eighty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-one: I woke up to heavy rain this morning, which came and went all day along with stiff winds. I love the rain, and even though it was cold, was delighted to pull out […]
Also tagged pencil, self portrait, spring, waterThis sketch is the eightieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty: My friend Steven suggested I sketch Spring today. I decided to imagine a little landscape where receding snow gives way to sprigs of grass and a handful to tulips pushing up through last […]
Also tagged landscape, springThis sketch is the seventy-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-nine: Fraction homework. On the page are all the calculations I could not do in my head when adding 16 3/8 + 4 4/5 + 12 3/4 + 23 5/6. The nice thing is […]
Also tagged cartoon, pencil, still lifeThis sketch is the seventy-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-eight: After trying my hand at ancient Greek fresco painting yesterday, I thought it would be fun to play Athenian vase painter today. This drawing is designed after a detail of Ajax carrying the […]
Also tagged ancient, art on art, figure studyThis sketch is the seventy-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-seven: Today I enjoyed lunch with art history colleague and friend, Andrew H. Last summer we visited ancient ruins in Ercolano, Pompeii, and Paestum, and saw the “Tomb of the Diver,” the only well-preserved […]
Also tagged ancient, art on art, figure studyThis sketch is the seventy-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-six: While repeatedly stepping and going no where on the Stairmaster at the gym, I began to wonder what I should draw today. I decided to adapt the Stairmaster display into an imaginary landscape, […]
Also tagged landscapeThis sketch is the seventy-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-three: This drawing emulates an etching and aquatint print made by Emil Bernard in 1935. It is one is a series of 50 images designed to illustrate Victor Hugo’s poem “Le Fin de Satan.” […]
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