This sketch is the eighty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-seven: Three hours in math class inspired the idea of academically constructing perspective and proportion for today’s sketch. As I walked to the parking ramp at the U of M, I decided to use […]
Also tagged abstractThis 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, oil, spring, still lifeThis sketch is the eighty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-five: Some days, especially when I start my sketching late, I just have to draw what’s on my mind. Tonight I was thinking about fellowship with good friends, and spreading peace and hope in […]
Also tagged allegory, animal, birdThis sketch is the eighty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-four: This is a colored pencil study of Caprica Six, my green-cheeked conure, sitting on the keys of my piano. As parrots go, he’s very tiny at about 64 grams. He’s a busy little […]
Also tagged animal, birdThis 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, oil, 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 oil, self portrait, spring, waterThis 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, oil, still lifeThis sketch is the seventy-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-five: Belgian avant-garde artist, James Ensor, is a favorite of mine. Especially his etchings. I made this drawing of a detail from one of his earliest (1886) and most famous prints, La Cathédrale, from […]
Also tagged art on art, ensor, landscapeThis sketch is the seventy-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-four: I must admit I do love some good old-fashioned classicism. This quick sketch explores the classical through the lens of the 19th century, and is loosely based on an angel’s head from a […]
Also tagged art on art, faceThis 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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