This 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 chalk, figure study, pen and ink, washThis sketch is the fifty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day fifty-0ne: This sketch was inspired by my own study of water yesterday, but more importantly a print in my collection by late 19th-century artist Alphonse Legros. He used drypoint and the impression has quite […]
Also tagged landscape, nature, pen and ink, waterThis sketch is the forty-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-eight: I’ve been enjoying the paintings of Franz Marc the last day or so, and wanted to make a little tribute to his expressionist approach to animals. Since it’s very foggy in the Twin […]
Also tagged blaue reiter, horse, marc, winterThis sketch is the forty-sixth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-six: The last few days I’ve been looking at the paintings of James Ensor, Emil Nolde, and Edvard Munch. This invention of mine, which was a scream to make, is a response to the […]
Also tagged abstract, ensor, face, munch, nolde, oilThis sketch is the forty-first in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day forty-one: At Kowalski’s I sometimes like to get a sushi sampler as a treat. It’s quite fresh because there a little sushi station in the deli area, and a man makes it on the […]
Also tagged abstract, food, oil, still lifeThis sketch is the thirty-ninth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-nine: Since I have a cold it seemed fitting to draw a still life of the objects I’ve looked at most often today. The style I ended up using reminds me a bit of […]
Also tagged abstract, oil, still lifeThis sketch is the thirty-eighth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day thirty-eight: These two male figures sitting back to back form one of 36 figure groups in the “Monolith Plateau” of Frogner Park in Oslo, Norway. The park is filled with stone and bronze sculptures […]
Also tagged face, pencil, sculpture, stoneThis 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, figure study, 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 […]
Also tagged figure study, pencil, self portraitThis sketch is the twenty-third in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day twenty-three: Practicing draftsmanship by sketching ancient sculpture with pencil. This sculpture, “Dioniso,” is a 2nd-century CE copy of an original from the 4th century BCE, now at the National Archeological Museum in Naples, Italy.
Also tagged ancient, sculpture