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Category: Drawing

  • Double Degas Eye Candy for Today

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    The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage, and Édouard Manet, Seated, Holding His Hat, Edgar Degas Degas was restless experimenter. In his depiction of a ballet rehearsal (for which Degas himself “rehearsed” with a number of preparatory drawings, and finished in three different versions) he is experimenting both with composition, as he frequently did, and with…

  • Eye Candy for Today: Isaac de Moucheron landscape drawing

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    Classical Landscape, Isaac de Moucheron In the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click “Fullscreen” and then zoom or download arrow. A beautiful drawing in the grand tradition of 17th century Dutch landscapes in pen and ink with washes. In this case, the artist has combined two ink colors, brown and gray-brown. The original measures roughly 7×12…

  • Hopper Drawing

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    Hopper Drawing is a show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York that pulls from a collection of over 2,500 drawings in the museum’s holdings, along with some of Hopper’s most iconic paintings, to examine both his process as a painter and his role as a draftsman. Though I have not yet…

  • Karen X. Cheng learns to dance (and be a designer)

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    What does learning to dance in a year have to do with learning to draw or paint? A lot, I think. From Jason Kottke’s blog, I was introduced to this time compressed video of Karen Cheng learning to dance over the course of a year. She made the decision it was what she wanted to…

  • Sarah Lamb

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    There are times, of course, when paintings can be arresting because of their color and drama; there are also times when paintings can be striking because of their subtleties. The refined, intimate still life paintings of Sara Lamb are a case in point. Lamb uses a muted palette, carefully controlled value contrasts and deft variation…

  • KIm Jung Gi

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    Despite some glaring flaws in its presentation, this time lapse video of Kim Jung Gi drawing a complex panorama in markers, across two walls at 90° and apparently without preliminary sketch, is fascinating. Starting with a driver’s face, he goes on to draw cars, bikes, scuba divers and a variety of animals and people, including…