It has seemed a little odd not to be sketching for the last 11 days, and this evening after dinner I thought it would be relaxing to get out the digital drawing pad and do a little painting. So while I won’t be making a picture every day, there’s no reason not to post a […]
Also tagged art on art, landscape, oil, pastelDay three hundred and fifty: Some days I guess I’m just in the mood to draw. I’ve always liked a particular photograph I took of a juvenile great blue heron at the mouth of the Madrigal River in Costa Rica, but I’ve never managed to sketch it. I’ve considered it several times, but abandoned the […]
Also tagged bird, oil, pastelDay three hundred and forty-five: With only 20 sketches remaining, I’m already starting to think about what kinds of creative projects I may pursue in 2012. One goal I have is to make a print, and in particular, design my own printed holiday card. I came up with the idea while browsing through many of […]
Also tagged pastelDay three hundred and thirty-seven: I’ve been watching Stephen Hawking’s “Into the Universe” series on Netflix, which gave me the idea of sketching something galactic and fascinating. Nebulas the size of several light years seemed too complicated to begin with, so I decided to start closer to home. Today’s drawing using oil pastel is an […]
Also tagged landscape, oil, pastelDay three hundred and thirty-six: Ever since I studied 16th-century Italian woodcuts intensely about a year ago, I’ve been enchanted by the bark-crusted trunks of twisting trees and stumps. I have a theory that every great artist has made one or two during the course of their career. This evening I visited the Pennsylvania Academy […]
Also tagged landscape, pen and ink, woodcutDay three hundred and thirty-two: It occurred to me the other day that although I’ve sketched many landscapes this year, I hadn’t made one of Colorado mountains. Tonight’s quick study, in oil pastel, is based on a photo I took of a sunset near Vail in late June, 2005. I loved sorting out layers of […]
Also tagged landscape, oil, pastelDay three hundred and twenty-one: This afternoon I had the pleasure of spending a little time with an expert on Japanese prints who was visiting from Washington D.C. We looked at an example of “Red Fuji” in the PMA’s collection, which turns out to be a very fine, early impression of the classic color woodcut […]
Also tagged art on art, landscape, woodcutDay three hundred and thirteen: Back to the beach. I think I’ve made a couple of sunrise sketches from the Corcovado beach in southwest Costa Rica, but not a sunset. This impressionistic view of the Pacific was inspired by a photo I took years ago. I’ve always liked the interplay of orange and blue between […]
Also tagged landscape, oil, pastelDay two hundred and eighty-three: Here’s a first: what I decide to sketch took a fraction of the time I thought it would! Usually it’s the other way around. This afternoon, a curator’s request sent me into a gallery of drawings, and although I had seen the drawing before, my recent work with pen and […]
Also tagged pen and inkDay two hundred and eighty-one: My friend Kurt’s drawings in pen and ink reminded me of some of my favorite landscapes by Domenico Campagnola. I was inspired poke about the “Pens” settings in the Corel Painter program, and I discovered one called “Real Variable Width Pen.” I found that if I made the “expression” for […]
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