This sketch is the ninetieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety: This evening I attended a lecture at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts about sculpture and the sculptural in Renaissance painting. The topic begged, of course, for me to paint a sculpture for today’s […]
Also tagged art on art, sculptureThis sketch is the eighty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-three: I’m repeatedly amazed at how enjoyable sketching can be even when I don’t think I have a drawing in me. Tonight I just starting scribbling, and that got the juices flowing. Then I […]
Also tagged animal, art on art, black, pen and inkThis 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 art on art, figure study, oilThis 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 art on art, figure study, oilThis sketch is the sixty-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-eight: My favorite text message today came from a friend looking for a word that was on the tip of his tongue: “What is the term used for the technique developed by the Greeks […]
Also tagged art on art, athlete, figure study, pencil, sculptureThis sketch is the thirty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-seven: This sketch is an abstracted reinvention of a fresco fragment painted c. 54-68 CE in the Villa di Arianna in Stabiae. The fresco of the sea nymph on her horse was preserved by […]
Also tagged art on art, figure study, oilThis sketch is the twenty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day twenty-three: Practicing draftsmanship by sketching ancient sculpture with pencil. This sculpture, “Dioniso,” is a 2nd-century CE copy of an original from the 4th century BCE, now at the National Archeological Museum in Naples, Italy.
Also tagged art on art, sculptureThis sketch is the twenty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Twenty-one: Inspired by Greek temple ruins at Paestum, Italy.
Also tagged art on art, landscape, oilThis 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 art on art, face, redThis 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 […]
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