Day one hundred and fifty-four: Despite gray skies this afternoon, the sun burned through the haze just enough to cast a shadow on the sundial at Machu Picchu. This drawing is based on a photo I snapped with my iPhone just before sunset. The complex geometry of the sundial appears to have been carved out […]
Also tagged landscape, oilDay one hundred and fifty-three: This afternoon I took the iPad to the Ollantaytambo sun temple and started looking for something I thought I could draw relatively quickly. I ended up sitting on a terrace across from my favorite wall in the complex, which as far as I can tell, faces the rising sun of […]
Also tagged pencilDay one hundred and forty-eight: This last-minute sketch was inspired by a church spire I noticed on my way home from a dinner party. I used pastels and started playing with color because my friend Mary and I are starting a challenge that marries the styles of Munch and Magritte. This isn’t a particularly thoughtful […]
Also tagged abstract, allegory, nocturne, pastelDay one hundred and forty-five: Occasionally, as I go though my day, I see something and immediately decide it should be the daily sketch. Today I was walking to my car after work, and encountered the orange cones and yellow paint you see here. I really enjoyed sketching in the forms with oil pastel, and […]
Also tagged oilDay one hundred and forty: When I move to Philadelphia, I’ll be living about three blocks from Rittenhouse Square. It’s an utterly charming park, and a perfect place to sit and enjoy a cup of coffee. Today’s sketch is a study for an etching depicting the little glass gazebo that stands in the center of […]
Also tagged landscape, nature, pencilDay one hundred and thirty-eight: After three full days of apartment hunting I’ve narrowed it down to a couple places near Rittenhouse Square. Both are in brick buildings similar to the one I’ve quickly sketched here, but neither is as crooked! The apartment I’m leaning toward is in this particular place on the south side […]
Also tagged pencilDay one hundred and thirty-seven: My friend, Dan K, has been making some nice photos lately. This morning he posted one taken at daybreak in Puerta Vallarta. I liked the dim geometric shapes of the buildings in front of the dusky mountain against a sky just beginning to glow with warmth. The spindly radio towers […]
Also tagged landscape, oilThis sketch is the one hundred and twenty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and twenty-one: After yesterday’s study based on an etching by D. Y. Cameron, I thought I’d try making my own etched-like sketch of an architectural setting. This study is […]
Also tagged oil, pencilThis sketch is the one hundred and twentieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and twenty: In honor of the last day of “Venice on Paper,” a show of prints and drawings at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, today’s sketch is based on […]
Also tagged art on art, cameron, pencilThis sketch is the one hundred and twelfth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and twelve: Browsing through photos this evening, I came across one I took in Venice last November of a palazzo at night. When I saw the building in dim […]
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