Day three hundred and ten: While cleaning the apartment today I was listening to inspirational music, and began contemplating themes of fear and faith and despair and hope. The lyrics to one song caught my ear, and remembering the expressionist woodcut I liked yesterday, I thought I would try making up a new picture. After […]
Also tagged animal, bird, pastel, pencilDay three hundred and eight: Looking again at early etchings, this sketch is based on a detail from one by Hans Burgkmair the Elder. As far as historians know he only made one etching around 1520 of a scene with Venus and Mercury. I saw an impression of the print at the fair yesterday, and […]
Also tagged Burgkmair, pencilDay three hundred and four: I have a new favorite print by the 16th-century German printmaker, Albrecht Dürer. It’s an early etching, and one of the handful he made in what was, at the time, an entirely new print medium. I saw an impression of the untitled print for the first time at work today. […]
Also tagged Dürer, pencilDay two hundred and ninety-nine: A teacher from the University of Pennsylvania brought her class of artists to look at a group of amazing drawings in the study room today. I spent two sessions looking at them, and listen to her and her students discuss them in depth. I was inspired to try a fresh […]
Also tagged conte crayon, figure studyDay two hundred and ninety-five: Poking about photos I’ve taken in art museums, I ran across several from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway. At the time, in 2009, I remember being surprised by his color choices in several of the paintings, and the bold use of brushstroke Munch used to blend the colors on […]
Also tagged abstract, munch, oil, pastelDay two hundred and ninety-four: After picking a subject for my sketch today, I opened the Corel Painter program, and I don’t know what setting I accidentally hit, but when I started applying color to the canvas, a strange cluster of roses appeared. I decided they were meant to be, and drew my picture of […]
Also tagged figure study, pastelDay two hundred and sixty-three: I wasn’t satisfied with Adam’s head in yesterday’s sketch, and so I tried a closer study of the profile from Dürer’s masterpiece. One of my favorite things about the entire engraving is how much Adam and Eve look like statues of Greek deities, perhaps Apollo and Venus. Of course, the […]
Also tagged classicism, Dürer, pencilDay two hundred and sixty-two: Some of my favorites themes that have emerged over the course of the last 261 drawings include parrots, original prints, and classicism. This sketch incorporates a little of all three. It was inspired by a 1504 engraving of Adam and Eve made by German printmaker, Albrecht Dürer. Made between Dürer’s […]
Also tagged art on art, bird, Dürer, figure study, parrot, pencilDay two hundred and forty-eight: An indirect request from a colleague at work steered me toward sketches after photographs by Paul Strand. I wasn’t very satisfied with the final product of yesterday’s study of “Rebecca,” but I did enjoy applying and blending color to create shape and surface. I thought I’d try one more, so […]
Also tagged oilDay two hundred and forty-seven: I’ll be the first to admit that, aside from the pose, the woman in my sketch doesn’t look like the woman in the photograph I used as a model. The original is a Palladium print at the Getty Museum of a photograph taken by Paul Strand in 1923. It’s titled […]
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