Day 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, face, figure studyDay one hundred and ninety-nine: This morning I had to look at a drawing Cézanne made in a sketchbook of Michelangelo’s dying slave at the Louvre. When I say had, I really do mean it was my job to look over this glorious page. (I’m so blessed!) And I thought to myself, “I have a […]
Also tagged figure study, sculptureDay one hundred and ninety-eight: Thanks to a co-worker’s pickup, some new bookcases made it from the South Philadelphia Ikea to the apartment this afternoon. Caprica is always fascinated by tools and anything shiny, like nuts and bolts, and was eager to help put the shelves together. Today’s cartoon sketch makes light of his kind […]
Also tagged bird, cartoonDay one hundred and ninety-seven: On the way to Rittenhouse Square from my apartment is a little art gallery, selling what appears to be late 19th and early 20th-century paintings. There’s one in the window of a little impressionist view of a Venetian canal. I don’t know who the artist might be, but I like […]
Also tagged architecture, veniceDay one hundred and ninety-six: Looking to keep it simple on a Friday evening after a long week, I decided to make a quick, spontaneous pencil sketch of an imaginary landscape. Sketch? Check!
Also tagged landscapeDay one hundred and ninety-three: I guess it’s going to be a hit-and-miss kind of week. I rushed through this sketch inspired by a theoretical building design by the 18th-century French architect Étienne-Louis Boullée. I saw the original in the study gallery of the Uffizi in Florence a few years ago, and stumbled across a […]
Also tagged architecture, art on art, oilDay one hundred and ninety-one: After poking at a quotidian sort-of still life, I abandoned it and gave myself 20 minutes to sketch this figure from a snapshot I took a few years ago in Bangkok, somewhere on the grounds of the palace. I don’t know who the figure is, or what the story might […]
Also tagged art on art, figure studyDay 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, face, veniceDay one hundred and eighty-eight: Anyone who follows these daily sketches may have noticed that when I really don’t know what to draw, I end up doodling something very abstract. Tonight I played vertical lines using black and white pencils to create shapes. It’s something I’ve toyed with before, and sometime when I have a […]
Also tagged abstract, black, whiteDay 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!
Also tagged abstract, art on art, cartoon, face