Category: Drawing
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Rembrandt's elephants
A Rembrandt drawing figures in a story in New Scientist today, about the search for the earliest example of an Asian Elephant known to European scientists. It was determined that the previous presumed example was, in fact, an African elephant, and records were searched for another example of a true Asian Elephant. It turns out…
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Don Kenn (update)
OK, here’s your Halloween treat: a revisit to Don Kenn (AKA John Kenn Mortensen), who continues to fill Post-It pads and other odds and ends of office supplies with pen drawings of his delightful ghouls, ghosts, demons and big furry monsters. See my previous post on Don Kenn.
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Eye Candy for Today: Samuel Palmer graphite drawing
Ancient Trees, Lullingstone Park, Samuel Palmer Graphite on cream wove paper, 10×15″ (26x37cm) In the collection of the Yale Center for British Art. In addition to a zoom, the museum’s page includes a download link from which you can download medium-resolution (1mb) and high-resolution (18mb) versions of the image. Also available on the Google Art…
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Eye Candy for Today: Raphael drawing
Kneeling Woman with her Left Arm Raised, Raphael (Raffaello Santi) On Google Art Project; also Wikimedia Commons. Original is in the National Galleries Scotland. Red chalk with touches of black chalk. 11×7.5″ (28x19cm). When I think of superb draftsmanship in the history of art, Raphael is way up there on the list. Way up there.
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Eye Candy for Today: Frederico Zuccaro drawing
Taddeo Drawing by Moonlight in Calabrese’s House, Frederico Zuccaro Pen and brown ink with wash, roughly 17×7 inches (43x18cm). Frederico Zuccaro’s drawing of his brother, Taddeo, drawing Rome and the Tiber by moonlight. I love the indication of additional drawings to the left and right, apparently on the outside of the shutters, or on paper…
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Drawn the Road Again (Chandler O'Leary)
Drawn the Road Again is a sketch blog by Chandler O’Leary in which she chronicles her travels in the form of line and watercolor drawings in Moleskein sketchbooks. I like the range of subjects and viewpoints in her observations, and the feeling of immediacy in her apporach. O’Leary is an illustrator and lettering artist who…