Category: Drawing
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The Face of Leonardo?
It has long been assumed that the red chalk drawing shown above is a self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci. It certainly looks like what we expect or want the great Renaissance artist to look like, his penetrating deep-set eyes gazing out at us from distant past, weighted with the perhaps painful wisdom of great insight…
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Barrett Bailey
Barrett Bailey is an Alabama artist working in the classical realist tradition. Though you will find small still life paintings and an occasional landscape in his online galleries, Bailey is primarily a figure and portrait artist. The Paintings section of his site includes paintings in a range of sizes and degrees of finish, from small…
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My Father’s Hand (Samuel Wray)
My Father’s Hand is a tribute blog, created by designer Amanda Wray to showcase the drawings of her father, Samuel Wray. Samuel Wray was a commercial artist in some capacity, though I know little about his commercial work other than that he did some inking and lettering projects for comics, notably for a Robinson Crusoe…
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American Artist’s Self-Portrait Competition
I’ve always been fascinated by self-portraits (not that I’ve done that many myself). Here is not only the artist’s personality expressed through their work, but through their own inner or outer vision of themselves. Many of history’s great paintings have been self portraits, from Durer and Rembrandt to Sargent and Van Gogh, artists have made…
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ArtDemonstrations.com
ArtDemonstrations.com is a blog in which the author has collected and shares links to various art demonstrations and tutorials he has come across on the web. Some of them are more useful than others and they take several forms, from a few steps in a painting process shown as photos, to longer step-by step breakdowns,…
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Simon Otto
Though there aren’t many pieces available online, the variety of subject, medium and approach, and the high quality of each, make the sketchblog of Simon Otto well worth a visit. Otto’s blog is actually just excerpts from his contributions to insert name here, a group blog he shares with several other talented artists, who, like…