Category: Drawing
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Eye Candy for Today: Simon Vouet drawing
Creusa Carrying the Gods of Troy, Simon Vouet Black and white chalk on paper, 11×8″ (28x20cm). Original is in the National Gallery of Art, D.C. The image on the linked page is zoomable. Click Download for larger images. You have to create a (free) account to download the high-resolution images.
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Eye Candy for Today: Jakob Schmutzer wash drawing
Landscape with a ruin near Mödling, Jakob Matthias Schmutzer Brown and grey ink, black chalk. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hi-res version here (1.7mb).
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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.