Day three hundred and thirty-one: I liked the way the trees I finger sketched the other day turned out, and so I thought I would try a more complex tree with the digital drawing pad. I was delighted to find myself able to make a branch that didn’t split out to the side, but rather […]
Also tagged landscape, treeDay three hundred and twenty-nine: Late November in Minnesota can be so delightfully melancholy, especially when it hasn’t yet snowed. Bare trees, the last rake-missed leaves scattered and rustling beneath a low, overcast sky. Honking geese have left behind cawing black crows. Damp grays and browns settle and wait to be cloaked in a sparkling […]
Also tagged iPad, landscapeDay three hundred and twenty-five: About the time I put the digital pen to the pad, my good friend, Dana, called from Minneapolis. As we chatted, I started doodling away, and by the time I hung up, half the white space was filled in. The face and surrounding shapes I had drawn looked a little […]
Also tagged abstract, faceDay three hundred and seventeen: With no plan to draw any particular subject, I started to doodle a bit of what was sitting right in front of me. This is the typical view I see while making the daily sketch. Lately, Caprica has decided to be involved (entangled?) in the process, and either pokes around […]
Also tagged landscape, self portraitDay three hundred and fifteen: On Friday afternoons we’ve been hosting a printmaking class in the study room. Today we were looking at some prints by Mauricio Lasansky, and one in particular caught my attention. This sketch is a study of a small detail from one of his intaglio prints, for which the copper plate […]
Also tagged abstract, animal, conte crayon, oil, pastelDay three hundred and twelve: Today’s sketch is based on a detail in a mid-16th century drawing in the Thrivent Financial Collection. The artist or artists that made the drawing are essentially unknown, though it is generally in the style of Michelangelo. My sketch is not, however, as I used a pencil instead of ink, […]
Also tagged art on art, faceDay 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, face, pastelDay 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, faceDay three hundred and seven: I made this sketch on my iPhone while riding the train from NYC to Philadelphia. I spent the entire day at the New York Print Fair, pouring over piles of prints in booths that look very much like this one. Prints on the walls, prints in boxes on tables, and even […]
Also tagged iPhoneDay 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. […]
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