This 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 face, oil, pencil, skullThis sketch is the ninety-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-four: Continuing the woodcut theme for a second day, this pine tree is based on one by German printmaker Albrecht Altdorfer. It’s from a series of forty tiny woodcuts narrating “The Fall and Redemption […]
Also tagged black, landscape, oilThis sketch is the ninety-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-three: Paging through a book about the woodcut in 15th-century Europe, I browsed upon one of Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem from c. 1440-1445 with traces of faded color. The mule caught my eye. In […]
Also tagged animal, oil, pastelThis sketch is the ninety-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety-two: Today’s rapid sketch continues the ancient Roman sculptural theme, but this time looks at Roman fresco painting. This slightly pudgy figure with stubby feet is based on a fragment from Ercolano, now in […]
Also tagged ancient, figure study, oil, sculptureThis 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 face, oil, sculptureThis sketch is the ninetieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day ninety: This evening I attended a lecture at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts about sculpture and the sculptural in Renaissance painting. The topic begged, of course, for me to paint a sculpture for today’s […]
Also tagged ancient, sculptureThis sketch is the eighty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-three: I’m repeatedly amazed at how enjoyable sketching can be even when I don’t think I have a drawing in me. Tonight I just starting scribbling, and that got the juices flowing. Then I […]
Also tagged ancient, animal, black, pen and inkThis sketch is the seventy-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-eight: After trying my hand at ancient Greek fresco painting yesterday, I thought it would be fun to play Athenian vase painter today. This drawing is designed after a detail of Ajax carrying the […]
Also tagged ancient, figure study, oilThis sketch is the seventy-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-seven: Today I enjoyed lunch with art history colleague and friend, Andrew H. Last summer we visited ancient ruins in Ercolano, Pompeii, and Paestum, and saw the “Tomb of the Diver,” the only well-preserved […]
Also tagged ancient, figure study, oilThis sketch is the seventy-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-five: Belgian avant-garde artist, James Ensor, is a favorite of mine. Especially his etchings. I made this drawing of a detail from one of his earliest (1886) and most famous prints, La Cathédrale, from […]
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