Day two hundred and seventy-one: Today’s sketch is based on a photograph I took of a marble sculpture at the Rodin Museum in Paris several years ago. I’ve always liked the way the natural light from the museum’s windows fell on the contours of the nude woman’s body and created her form in black and […]
Also tagged pastel, pencil, sculptureDay two hundred and sixty-nine: This afternoon I was showing photographs by Philadelphia photographer Ray Metzker to a curator from another museum. Many were spectacular, but one caught my eye in particular. It captured the silhouette of a pedestrian and his reflection in wet pavement. Today’s sketch was inspired by that photograph, although the composition […]
Also tagged oil, pastelDay two hundred and sixty-six: I showed dozens of modern prints in the study room today: this morning, Mexican, and in the afternoon Expressionist, mostly German. This sketch is an amalgam of the latter, I think, apparently brewed in of my subconscious mind to be poured out through the Wacom Bamboo. My title, Nachtdame, meaning […]
Also tagged art on artDay two hundred and sixty-two: Some of my favorites themes that have emerged over the course of the last 261 drawings include parrots, original prints, and classicism. This sketch incorporates a little of all three. It was inspired by a 1504 engraving of Adam and Eve made by German printmaker, Albrecht Dürer. Made between Dürer’s […]
Also tagged art on art, bird, Dürer, face, parrot, pencilDay two hundred and fifty-two: Exhausted after a long day at work, followed by the exhibition opening of “Here and Now” at the art museum, and then dinner, I had to keep today’s sketch as simple as possible. All my tired mind could muster was an image I saw walking home of a lone man […]
Also tagged nocturne, oilDay two hundred and forty-four: I woke up from a dream last night, and couldn’t fall back asleep right away. I remembered dreaming of a giant oracle that looked something like this. She originally appeared as a beggar on the sidewalk who would not let me pass. When she trapped me and spoke I realized […]
Also tagged allegory, surrealDay two hundred and thirty-four: I’ve been listening to CDs since I moved to Philadelphia, and trying to explore the ones that I’ve been given over the years, but never really listened to. When I first put in a compilation titled “Chicago Blues: The Golden Age” I thought I might make it through all the […]
Also tagged art on art, bluesDay two hundred and thirty-two: Designed to continue exploring a classical theme, and to practice line drawing, tonight’s sketch is based on an ancient figure of Eros in flight. The original can be found on an Athenian vase from around 480 BCE, painted by an anonymous craftsman known today as the “Dresden painter.” The vase […]
Also tagged ancient, art on art, oilDay two hundred and thirty-one: If Picasso has a “blue period” and a “rose period” then I must be in a “Picasso period.” I guess this is the result of looking at nothing but Picasso prints all day. I noticed the figure on the left in an etching by Picasso titled La Danse (The Dance), […]
Also tagged ancient, art on art, face, oil, picassoDay two hundred: This morning I came across a beautiful drawing of a Sybil based on a color woodcut by the 16th-century printmaker Ugo da Carpi, which was in turn, based on a work by Raphael. The layers of green, black, and white on the page mimicked a chiaroscuro woodcut so well, I had to […]
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