Category: Drawing
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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…
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, 4th Edition
Like the 1930’s Hollywood cliché of the civilized explorers wowing the backward and worshipful natives with the “magic” of a cigarette lighter held aloft at a dramatic moment, there has long been an assignment of magic to the ability to draw and paint realistically in our culture. This comes from the notion that the ability…
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Nagai Hideyuki
Japanese artist Nagai Hideyuki has created a fun series of drawings that span two sketchbooks propped at 90° to one another, and when viewed from the proper angle, give the illusion of continuous three dimensionality. You can see a selection on his website and on his deviantART page. There is a video on YouTube that…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ingres graphite portrait
Portrait of Mme Adolphe-Marcellin Defresne, née Sophie Leroy, graphite drawing by Jean-Aguste-Dominique Ingres. I love how casual the rest of the drawing seems compared to the carefully rendered face. From the Morgan Library and Museum. More here. Use the controls under the image for Zoom and Full Screen.