This sketch is the seventy-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-four: I must admit I do love some good old-fashioned classicism. This quick sketch explores the classical through the lens of the 19th century, and is loosely based on an angel’s head from a […]
Also tagged face, pencilThis 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 figure study, oil, pencilThis sketch is the seventieth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy: Bizarre as it may seem, this drawing was inspired by a highly influential Netherlandish artist of the sixteenth century: Pieter Bruegel the Elder. It brings together details from two drawings by Bruegel. The […]
Also tagged bruegel, pen and inkThis 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, athlete, figure study, pencil, sculptureThis sketch is the sixty-seventh in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-seven: D. Y. Cameron was a Scottish artist who painted and made etched prints of landscapes in his native country. My drawing here was inspired by a picture of Ben Ledi by Cameron in […]
Also tagged cameron, charcoal, landscape, waterThis sketch is the sixty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day sixty-six: I was contemplating this quote from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, and wanted to create a composition that incorporated the text with an image. This is what happened as I started drawing while thinking about […]
Also tagged allegory, bird, blackThis 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 figure study, 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 charcoal, figure study, titianThis 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 face, 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 charcoal, face, munch, pencil