This sketch is the ninety-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-one: I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the result of yesterday’s drawing, though I thoroughly enjoyed studying the bronze and playing with the colors to create a sense of patina. Today, I have made a […]
Also tagged art on art, face, oilThis 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 ancient, art on artThis 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 ancient, art on art, athlete, figure study, pencilThis sketch is the forty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-three: Some days I just need to get the sketch done, and today has been one of them. This standing buddha was rapidly sketched in pencil after a tiny silver statue that I have.
Also tagged figure study, pencil, still lifeThis sketch is the thirty-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-eight: These two male figures sitting back to back form one of 36 figure groups in the “Monolith Plateau” of Frogner Park in Oslo, Norway. The park is filled with stone and bronze sculptures […]
Also tagged art on art, face, pencil, stoneThis 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 ancient, art on artThis sketch is the second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Two: Still discovering Corel Painter 11, still no wacom, but still fun!
Also tagged art on art, dragon, myth, stone