This sketch is the seventy-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-three: This drawing emulates an etching and aquatint print made by Emil Bernard in 1935. It is one is a series of 50 images designed to illustrate Victor Hugo’s poem “Le Fin de Satan.” […]
Also tagged art on art, oil, pencilThis sketch is the seventy-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-two: My friend Christopher has been encouraging me to practice figure drawing at a local artists’ coop where one can sketch a live model all Sunday afternoon. I spent a couple of hours there […]
Also tagged charcoal, conte crayon, pencilThis sketch is the sixty-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-eight: My favorite text message today came from a friend looking for a word that was on the tip of his tongue: “What is the term used for the technique developed by the Greeks […]
Also tagged ancient, art on art, athlete, pencil, sculptureThis sketch is the sixty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-five: My friends Dori J. and John D. each sent me a link to http://www.thejohnnycashproject.com, a site where anyone can draw a frame from the video “Ain’t No Grave” by Johnny Cash. This is […]
Also tagged art on art, johnny cash, landscape, waterThis sketch is the sixty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-four: This afternoon I was delighted to learn that one of the greatest painters of the Italian Renaissance made some pretty messy drawings, a result of his exploratory approach to composition. Even more pleasing […]
Also tagged art on art, charcoal, titianThis sketch is the fifty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-nine: Today I undertook a fascinating exercise to draw a male figure using a technique that maps out anatomical proportion relative to the size of the head. Apparently a whole person is about 7 […]
Also tagged pencilThis sketch is the fifty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-four: I really admire artists who can draw figures doing just about anything. Whole scenes of men fighting or women bathing or both. I’m particularly fond of the ink and wash drawings of Ubaldo […]
Also tagged art on art, chalk, pen and ink, washThis sketch is the forty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-three: Some days I just need to get the sketch done, and today has been one of them. This standing buddha was rapidly sketched in pencil after a tiny silver statue that I have.
Also tagged pencil, sculpture, still lifeThis sketch is the thirty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-seven: This sketch is an abstracted reinvention of a fresco fragment painted c. 54-68 CE in the Villa di Arianna in Stabiae. The fresco of the sea nymph on her horse was preserved by […]
Also tagged ancient, art on art, oilThis sketch is the thirty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-six: Tonight is the opening night gala of “Titian and the Golden Age of Venetian Painting” at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. My exhibition, “Venice on Paper,” is showing in conjunction with the Titian […]
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