This sketch is the one hundred and sixteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and sixteen: Travel kept me from finding adequate time to do much more than get this sketch “done.” It’s a spontaneous exploration of randomness and repetition. I started by […]
Also taggedThis sketch is the one hundred and tenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and ten: All day I’ve had an image in my mind: the form of a runner, fragmented and repeating as if caught by stop-motion photography. My quick sketch of […]
Also tagged charcoal, figure study, pen and inkThis sketch is the one hundred and seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and seven: Today I looked at some amazing prints by early 20th-century German Expressionist artists who were working in etching, aquatint, and drypoint. My favorite was by Emil Nolde. […]
Also tagged art on art, landscape, pencil, waterThis sketch is the one hundred and first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and one: Yep, you guessed it: geometry in my math for the GRE class this evening. I thought this diagram in the text book could have used some color […]
Also tagged oilThis 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 pencilThis sketch is the seventy-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-one: I won’t go into detail about why I drew a bird, a cello, and a clock today. Suffice to say they were all on my mind for one dull reason or another. Still […]
Also tagged pencil, woodcutThis sketch is the sixty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-three: This evening I was taking a math skills assessment to determine what kinds of problems I need to study especially for the GRE. While I got less than the maximum number of problems […]
Also tagged chalkThis sketch is the forty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-six: The last few days I’ve been looking at the paintings of James Ensor, Emil Nolde, and Edvard Munch. This invention of mine, which was a scream to make, is a response to the […]
Also tagged art on art, ensor, face, munch, nolde, oilThis sketch is the forty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-one: At Kowalski’s I sometimes like to get a sushi sampler as a treat. It’s quite fresh because there a little sushi station in the deli area, and a man makes it on the […]
Also tagged art on art, food, oil, still lifeThis sketch is the thirty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-nine: Since I have a cold it seemed fitting to draw a still life of the objects I’ve looked at most often today. The style I ended up using reminds me a bit of […]
Also tagged art on art, oil, still life