This sketch is the one hundred and twenty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and twenty-three: This evening I was talking with some friends, and couldn’t take my eyes off an acquaintance’s fantastic shirt with a large angel and serpent-person creature. It appeared […]
Also tagged figure study, pencilThis sketch is the one hundred and twenty-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and twenty-two: I was all ready to attempt a magnolia blossom from the backyard in a Chinese painting style, when I received some photos from my parents. They attended […]
Also tagged figure study, 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 architecture, cameron, pencilThis 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 face, figure study, pencil, sculptureThis sketch is the one hundred and thirteenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and thirteen: My brother, grandmother, aunt, and I went to an Easter vigil at church this evening. Hearing the story of Christ’s resurrection reminded me of a woodcut version […]
Also tagged Dürer, figure study, 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 […]
Also tagged architecture, oil, venice, waterThis sketch is the one hundred and seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and seven: Today I looked at some amazing prints by early 20th-century German Expressionist artists who were working in etching, aquatint, and drypoint. My favorite was by Emil Nolde. […]
Also tagged abstract, landscape, pencil, waterThis sketch is the one hundred and sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and six: This sketch was inspired by a painting titled “On the Nile” by the nineteenth-century American painter, Sanford Robinson Gifford. The painting appeared in a presentation at the […]
Also tagged landscape, oil, waterThis sketch is the ninety-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-seven: This quick sketch is inspired by Edvard Munch’s oil painting “Night in St. Cloud” at the National Gallery in Oslo. Painted in 1890, Munch’s original is more rich with subtle shades of color […]
Also tagged munch, nocturne, oilThis sketch is the ninety-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-six: Yesterday’s workout made my legs extremely sore today, especially my quadriceps. I can barely walk down the stairs without wincing. The idea of drawing my leg muscles led me back to Vesalius’s anatomical […]
Also tagged figure study, oil, pencil