Category: Drawing
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Eye Candy for Today: Henry Farrer graphite drawing
Landscape by a Stream, Henry Farrer, graphite, 15 x 22 in. ( 36 x 56 cm), in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. Downloadable file on their website. 19th century English/American artist Henry Farrer gives us a beautifully delicate graphite landscape. It looks carefully detailed, but on closer examination, reveals much in the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Durer ink drawing
An Eastern Ruler Seated on His Throne. Albrecht Durer, pen and black ink on paper, 12 x 8 inches (31 x 20 cm), in the collection of the National Gallery of Art, DC. Durer was a master of painting, graphics and, of course, drawing. In this wonderful ink drawing, his command of line, hatching and…
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Eye Candy for today: Van Gogh rock drawing
The Rock of Montmajour with Pine Trees, Vincent van Gogh, pencil, pen, reed pen and brush and ink, on paper, 19 x 24 in. (49 x 61 cm), in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. As much as I enjoy the color in Vincent Van Gogh’s later works, for which he is justly…
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Frederick Sandys’ Proud Maisie drawings
Proud Maisie (3 versions), drawings by Frederick Sandys. The first two versions of this drawing are in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and share a single page, with a link to the image on green paper below the primary image. There doesn’t seem to be a separate description for the second drawing, so…
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The Artist’s Guide to Sketching
Most of us, artists or not, have some idea of what sketching is. Sketching is a term associated with quickly realized, often rough and “unfinished” drawings (or paintings) that are meant to catch the essence of something without any unnecessary frills. That simplistic explanation, however, doesn’t convey the unexpected effects of a regular sketching practice:…