Category: Drawing
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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…
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The Unicorn Magical Drawing and Painting Horse
As I mentioned in my 2007 article on “The Drawing bench (horse)“, I’m fond of the arrangement provided by these usually simple benches that allow for a “sight-over” position when seated and drawing. I say “usually simple”, because I got a kick out of comment recently posted to the article on this amazingly deluxe variation,…