Day two hundred and forty: I’m a fan of German Expressionist, Emil Nolde’s, intaglio printmaking, particularly for the sense of layers he achieve when working with etching and aquatint together. My study today is based on a detail from his 1911 print Schriftgelehrte (Scribes), which is one of my many favorites in the Thrivent Financial […]
Also tagged art on art, nolde, oilDay two hundred and thirty-seven: When this week began, if you had asked me what new thing I would learn about prints, I would not have mentioned the Japanese printmaker Utagawa Kunisada (aka Toyokuni III). That, however, is one of the wonderful parts of my job: every day some unexpected piece of paper requires a […]
Also tagged art on art, pencil, woodcutDay two hundred and thirty-one: If Picasso has a “blue period” and a “rose period” then I must be in a “Picasso period.” I guess this is the result of looking at nothing but Picasso prints all day. I noticed the figure on the left in an etching by Picasso titled La Danse (The Dance), […]
Also tagged ancient, art on art, figure study, oil, picassoDay two hundred and thirty: Today’s sketch is based on a lithography by Picasso that I admired this morning, but I’m afraid that aside from general areas of light and dark, my version doesn’t look much like the original. Picasso’s is beautifully printed and looks like a rich soft pencil drawing with thick, carefully placed […]
Also tagged art on art, pencil, picassoDay two hundred and twenty-seven: This morning I was looking at little etchings of anonymous faces by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, and thinking about similar ones by Rembrandt. Rather than copy either of their pictures in their particular styles, I decided to make my own. I suspect they were looking at models in most cases, but […]
Also tagged pencilDay two hundred and seven: A colleague at work showed me a book with pictures mimicking heads designed by the 17th-century French academy artist Charles le Brun. The original illustrations were made to demonstrate “Heads Representing the Various Passions of the Soul as They are Expressed in the Human Countenance.” I couldn’t resist making snapshots […]
Also tagged art on art, pencilDay two hundred: This morning I came across a beautiful drawing of a Sybil based on a color woodcut by the 16th-century printmaker Ugo da Carpi, which was in turn, based on a work by Raphael. The layers of green, black, and white on the page mimicked a chiaroscuro woodcut so well, I had to […]
Also tagged art on art, figure study, pencilDay one hundred and ninety-two: This study is inspired by a Giorgio de Chirico oil painting I saw in a book today. Made c. 1930, the original is titled Still Life with Apollo Belvedere and Fruit, and I love, love, love it. Maybe someday I’ll make it to the Galleria dello Scudo in Verona to […]
Also tagged food, sculpture, still lifeDay one hundred and ninety: Aaaaah. So nice to have some time to spend working on a more detailed sketch. Today’s drawing is based on a detail of a woman in an early 16th-century engraving by the Venetian graphic artist Jacopo de’ Barbari. I enjoyed sketching her, although the curls of her hair and the […]
Also tagged art on art, pencil, veniceDay one hundred and eighty-seven: This morning I read that a man carried a small Picasso drawing out of a San Francisco art gallery and into a waiting taxicab. He didn’t pay for it. Today’s sketch is in honor of the hope that the brazen thief is caught red handed!
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