Category: Drawing
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Mathew Borrett
Mathew Borrett is a Canadian illustrator and visual effects artist who works with architectural illustration and also creates wild and sometimes elaborate imagined structures, some underground, some in cityscapes. His underground structures, with their maze-like and Escher influenced explorations of divided space, may have grown out of his more traditional architectural subjects, some of which…
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Whistler’s etchings (round 2)
Etchings, for me, have a kind of visual magic. There is something about the character of etched lines that is entrancing in a way quite distinct from other forms of drawing or graphics. I find it hard to isolate exactly why. Partly, I suppose, it’s the fine line available with an etching needle and carefully…
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The Colored Pencil Society of America
Like pastel, gouache and various drawing media, colored pencil is an artist’s medium that doesn’t receive the level of recognition its adherents would like. In part it shares the relative fragility and light exposure issues of works on paper (though materials are now being subjected to lightfastness tests), but largely colored pencil in particular suffers…
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Drawing the Line at Arcadia Fine Arts
Drawing seldom gets its due — in museums, galleries, books or even the internet — always relegated to a lesser status then other media. To be fair, this is partially because drawings and other works on paper are more subject to light damage and generally cannot be on permanent display; but largely it’s just that…
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Eye Candy for Today: Jan de Beijer landscape drawing
View of Doetinchem by Jan de Beijer. Hi-res image (1.2mb) here. In the Rijksmuseum. More at the bottom of the page. Direct, simple, but careful observation. Beautiful.
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Figure & Gesture Drawing Tool
Though figure drawing classes and open studio sessions are frequently available at art schools and artist organizations in larger metropolitan areas (see my post on the Directory of Figure Drawing Sessions), it’s not always easy or convenient to find a class nearby. In 2007 I wrote an article about online or on disc substitutes for…