Category: Drawing
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Eye Candy for Today: Gibson ink drawings
Various drawings, Charles Dana Gibson From the Toronto Public Library. Gibson was one of the great masters of pen and ink and a major early figure in “Golden Age” illustration. Look at the head of the “Gibson Girl” the center, and the variety of lines, from the short, fine pen strokes around the eyes and…
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Ben Sack
Benjamin Sack creates wonderfully complex large scale drawings of imaginary cities, often in detailed, map-like projections. There is a fascinating video on YouTube that steps through his process in filling out the drawing shown above, top (with detail). I particularly like his fun take on Van Gogh’s The Starry Night (above, bottom, with detail). In…
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Graphite drawings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Today, March 30, is — we are told — “National Pencil Day“, marking the advent of a patent on the pencil with an attached eraser. I’ll put aside the fact that this hardly represents the most significant event in the history of the pencil, and the inaccuracy of the linked WN article about Lipman creating…
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Eye Candy for Today: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard chalk drawing
Study of a Seated Woman Seen from Behind (Marie-Gabrielle Capet), Adélaïde Labille-Guiard Original is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A beautiful drawing by the 18th century French painter, and a wonderful example of the expressive possibilities for creating naturalistic portraits and figures in the “trois crayon” method of using three chalks — red, black…
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Matthew Cook (update)
In many ways, all art is about selection. Whether representational or non-representational, imaginary or abstracted from reality — visual art is about choices of what to show and what not to show. So, for that matter, is writing, music and all other forms of communication and expression. Ever since bottom-line mandates turned “news” into “infotainment”,…