Category: Drawing
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Eye Candy for Today: Richard Wilson chalk drawing
The Arbra Sacra on the Banks of Lake Nemi, Richard Wilson On Google Art Project; high-resolution downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Yale Center for British Art. Noted 18th century landscape painter Richard Wilson, who spent much of his time in Italy, gives us a beautifully direct observation of a tree at…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gainsborough ink and wash landscape
Wooded Landscape with Country Cart and Figures Walking down a Lane, Thomas Gainsborough On Google Art Project. High-resolution file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Yale Center for British Art. There’s something about ink and wash drawings like this one that feel… complete, like a form of painting with all the visual charm of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Prout street scene
French Street with a Medieval Turret, Samuel Prout In the National Gallery of Art, DC. The National Gallery’s page says this was done in brush and watercolor, as apparently does the artist’s inscription, but I would have assumed an initial drawing in pen and brown ink. Though it exists in that fascinating boundary between drawing…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres pencil portrait
Portrait of a Seated Lady, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres In the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Eye Candy for Today: Edmund Kanoldt pencil drawing
View of Benevento, Edmund Kanoldt On Google Art Project. Downloadable high-res file on Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the Getty Museum. A beautifully complete, but still economical, graphite drawing by the 19th century German landscape artist. I love the way he has handled the tone and textural variation in the distance, middle ground and foreground…
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Pablo Jurado Ruiz
Pablo Jurado Ruiz is a Spanish artist and creative director who works in the ink drawing technique of stipple, in which hundreds of tiny dots are laid down in carefully controlled ways to create areas of tone. His website features sections for the individual drawings, with detail crops and often photos of the work in…