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study of parrot with few lines

Day two hundred and twenty-one: The general rules of those making daily drawings, state that the they can be anything, even just a scribble or line, as long as it gets done. I usually do much more than that, but tonight I got a later start than usual. More ready for bed than a drawing […]

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2011 08 09 artist tribute
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lion in the artist’s den

Day two hundred and three: My sketch today is based on an artwork that was based on an artwork. Confused? Abraham Blootling made four engraved prints of lions around 1665 for a series titled Variae Leonum Icones. Each sheet pictures two lions originally designed by Peter Paul Rubens. I’ve found six of them so far […]

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2011 07 22 artist tribute
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bhutanese dancer

Day one hundred and seventy-eight: With less than 36 hours until my departure for Philadelphia, I needed a sketch that would only take a few minutes. This rapid pencil study is based on a masked dancer I photographed at a Buddhist religious festival in Paro, Bhutan in 2007.

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2011 06 27 quick study Comments (0)

Helo when wet

Day one hundred and sixty-two: Helo, my sun conure, took a giant bath this afternoon, and got himself completely drenched. I thought his spiky wet feathers looked adorable, so I tried to captured them in today’s sketch.

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2011 06 11 quick study Comments (2)

sleepy kitty

Day one hundred and thirty: Today I was cataloging prints at work, which means I get to look at amazing works on paper while I key data about them into a computer database. A sweetly sleeping cat on a pillow in the lower left corner of an intaglio print by the 16th-century artist Federico Barocci […]

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2011 05 10 artist tribute
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helo

This sketch is the one hundred and twenty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and twenty-four: I’ve been meaning to attempt a sketch of my sun conure, Helo, for several weeks. His primary wing feathers are very long right now, so he’s particularly […]

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2011 05 04 quick study Comments (4)

woodcut mule

This 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 […]

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2011 04 03 quick study Comments (0)

peace everywhere

This sketch is the eighty-fifth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-five: Some days, especially when I start my sketching late, I just have to draw what’s on my mind. Tonight I was thinking about fellowship with good friends, and spreading peace and hope in […]

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2011 03 26 quick study Comments (2)

caprica six

This sketch is the eighty-fourth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day eighty-four: This is a colored pencil study of Caprica Six, my green-cheeked conure, sitting on the keys of my piano. As parrots go, he’s very tiny at about 64 grams. He’s a busy little […]

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2011 03 25 quick study Comments (0)

mad cat

This 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 […]

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2011 03 24 quick study Comments (0)