Category: Drawing
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Fred Lynch, Drawings From the Road to Rome
There is something special and wonderful about pen and wash drawing, in particular when done with brown or reddish brown washes, that gives it much of the power of painting while simultaneously keeping the unique visual charm of drawing. I’ve occasionally pointed out particular favorites from history, but it’s great to have contemporary practitioners of…
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Casey Childs
Casey Childs is a painter based in Utah who focuses on portrait and figurative subjects. His approach to paint handling varies from brusque to refined, in keeping with the feeling generated by his subject and composition. Often his figures will be painted in the context of room interiors, in the course of which he also…
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Eye Candy for Today: Canaletto’s drawing of the Porta Portello
The Porta Portello with the Brenta Canal in Padua, Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal) On Google Art Project, high-res downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Albertina, Vienna. In pen and brown ink with brown and gray washes. Unfortunately, neither the museum or Google Art Project give the dimensions. To me it has the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Prud’hon’s Portrait of Constance Mayer
Portrait of Constance Mayer, Pierre-Paul Prud’hon On WikiArt, large version here. Original is in the collection of the Louvre, though I can’t find a listing for it on the museum’s new website. I had the pleasure of seeing this drawing in person at a show of Prud’hon’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art some…
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Eye Candy for Today: Bloemaert tree studies
Studies of Two Pollard Willows, Abraham Bloemaert Pen and brown ink with watercolor. Roughly 8×12 inches (20x30cm). In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Simple, direct and beautifully economical observation from nature. Not a superfluous line.
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How to Sharpen a Pencil for Drawing – Karl Gnass
At first I though this would be superficial, and though it does go through the basics we all think we know from art school, I’ve been sharpening artist pencils for more years than I can count, and I learned a few things. Karl Gnass transitioned from a career as concept and storyboard artist into teaching…