This sketch is the sixty-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-two: My friend Christopher posed a little challenge this morning, suggesting Egon Schiele’s “Standing Girl” in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts might make a good drawing exercise. I paged through a […]
Also tagged art on art, pencil, schieleThis sketch is the sixty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-one: Sometimes at the end of the day when I haven’t made my sketch I have no idea what to draw. A quick flip through a book of prints by Munch is almost always […]
Also tagged art on art, charcoal, munch, pencilThis sketch is the sixtieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty: This afternoon I was looking at William Blake’s series of engravings for the Book of Job, and his integration of illustration and text. Unrelated, I was also thinking about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. […]
Also tagged pencilThis 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 abstract, art on art, ensor, munch, nolde, oilThis sketch is the forty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-five: Fellow 365-day sketcher, Sara, creates awesome pictures in which figures and objects emerge from darkness. This mask was inspired by some mask-like faces in a drawing of hers from a couple days ago […]
Also tagged oil, still life, whiteThis 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, pencil, sculpture, stoneThis sketch is the thirty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-three: Tired and feeling uninspired, I somehow started sketching a picture of myself sketching this picture of myself. Since I didn’t have a mirror, I drew my image based on what I felt instead […]
Also tagged figure study, pen and ink, self portraitThis sketch is the twenty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day twenty-five: Not perfect, not what I thought it would be, not my favorite. But done for the day.
Also taggedThis sketch is the seventeenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Seventeen: This unfinished drawing is a detail from a fresco excavated from a villa in Boscareale (near Vesuvius). The painting is now in the National Archeological Museum in Naples. In the original, she’s not […]
Also tagged ancient, art on art, redThis sketch is the fourteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day Fourteen: Wasn’t sure what to draw, so I drew what came to mind. Been thinking about layers of color, so started there with a ground of pale yellow and brick; thought about Munch’s “Jealousy” […]
Also tagged allegory, black, munch, red