Day one hundred and seventy-eight: With less than 36 hours until my departure for Philadelphia, I needed a sketch that would only take a few minutes. This rapid pencil study is based on a masked dancer I photographed at a Buddhist religious festival in Paro, Bhutan in 2007.
Also tagged animal, pencilDay one hundred and seventy-one: I drew today’s sketch out of my mind. A couple of days ago I saw a painting by contemporary German mannerist Michael Triegel that included the head from a broken sculpture. It seemed surreal to me, and reminded me of the work of Giorgio de Chirico. However, the rest of […]
Also tagged abstract, art on art, pencilDay one hundred and forty-four: Many days I’m copying the art or style of another artist, but I’ve been thinking lately that I’d like to find my own style. This spontaneous sketch works the surface of the sheet, which is a theme that I find very compelling. I also like using apparently sporadic lines in […]
Also tagged abstract, art on art, pencil, woodcutDay one hundred and twenty-five: When I started this sketch-blog project, I had hoped to become better at creating something from scratch. I’ve always been pretty good at mimicking something else, especially if I work at it for a while. Erasers are very helpful too. This evening I thought I’d see what happened if I […]
Also tagged charcoalThis sketch is the one hundred and nineteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and nineteen: Today’s sketch is based on a detail of a marble sculpture at the Glyptotek museum in Copenhagen of Perseus. It was made by Laurent-Honoré Marqueste (1848-1920) in […]
Also tagged art on art, figure study, pencil, sculptureThis sketch is the one hundred and fifteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and fifteen: Occasionally I start out with an idea, and my sketch ends up being something very different. Today I had a spontaneous idea, but was nowhere near my […]
Also tagged oilThis sketch is the one hundred and fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and four: Just the other day I was disparaging artists like Picasso, who made lithographic doodles for the art market. Now I find myself in a pinch for time, […]
Also tagged cartoonThis sketch is the ninety-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-five: One more day looking at old woodcuts. This skull is modeled after a skeleton depicted in the 1543 edition of an early anatomical atlas written by Andreas Vesalius titled, De humani fabrica libri […]
Also tagged art on art, oil, pencil, skullThis 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, oil, sculptureThis sketch is the seventy-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-four: I must admit I do love some good old-fashioned classicism. This quick sketch explores the classical through the lens of the 19th century, and is loosely based on an angel’s head from a […]
Also tagged art on art, pencil