Day one hundred and thirty-four: I had to get something in under the wire tonight, so I grabbed the business card of an artist and mimicked the charcoal style on the back as quickly as possible. Kay Fenton is a senior at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and this sketch imitates a […]
Also tagged abstract, art on art, black, grayDay one hundred and thirty-one: A late evening discussion in the Thrivent Financial Religious Art Gallery about George Bellows’ painting of The Crucifixion reminded me that I wanted to sketch this figure from one of his prints. The male nude appears in a 1923 lithograph titled Christ of the Wheel. I chose it because of […]
Also tagged art on art, figure studyDay one hundred and twenty-five: When I started this sketch-blog project, I had hoped to become better at creating something from scratch. I’ve always been pretty good at mimicking something else, especially if I work at it for a while. Erasers are very helpful too. This evening I thought I’d see what happened if I […]
Also tagged faceThis sketch is the one hundred and tenth in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day one hundred and ten: All day I’ve had an image in my mind: the form of a runner, fragmented and repeating as if caught by stop-motion photography. My quick sketch of […]
Also tagged abstract, figure study, pen and inkThis sketch is the seventy-second in a 365-day challenge to draw a picture a day, every day, for a year… Day seventy-two: My friend Christopher has been encouraging me to practice figure drawing at a local artists’ coop where one can sketch a live model all Sunday afternoon. I spent a couple of hours there […]
Also tagged conte crayon, figure study, pencilThis 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 art on art, cameron, 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 art on art, figure study, titianThis 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 […]
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