Category: Drawing
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Urban Sketchers (update)
Urban Sketchers is a group blog that I first wrote about last November. Since then, hundreds of additional sketches have been added; and the blog’s layout has been updated, with a wider format and better organizatation (though I still wish they would somehow limit the Flickr slideshow widget at page bottom to a single page…
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Tiona Marco
Minnesota artist Tiona Marco does landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, still life, wildlife and botanical drawings, all in her medium of choice, Crayola Crayons. That’s right, good ol’ big yellow box of ’em, wax in paper wrappers, wears down to a nub in your hands, drew with ’em when you were five, Crayola Crayons. She doesn’t add…
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Crayola Crayons
Ahhh, think about Crayola Crayons, those wonderful waxy knobs of color, wrapped in shreds of peeled paper, that for so may of us are integral to our first experiences in making art. Wax crayons are a fond symbol of childhood (and/or or child rearing) for many of us. That wonderful smell (is there a sweeter…
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My Pocket Rembrandt
OK, I’ll explain what I mean by that. I’ve long been an admirer of Rembrandt’s drawings, particularly those done in reed pen, bistre ink and wash (e.g. the image above). (Bistre ink is made by boiling wood soot, often taken from wood-buring chimneys, in water. It produces as yellow-brown, transparent ink that was not favored…
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Urban Sketchers
I just discovered the Urban Sketchers blog a couple of weeks ago, and it immediately became one of my favorites. I enjoy location sketches done in an urban environment, particularly travel sketches, and the blog has much of that feeling, even though the contributors are often sketching in their home city. I came across Urban…
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Kerr Eby
For the benefit of those in other parts of the world, I’ll point out that today is Veterans Day here in the U.S., a day set aside to honor those who have given or risked their lives, endured hardships and put themselves in the service of their country in military service. The same date, November…