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Category: Drawing

  • Robert Beverly Hale

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    While preparing my post on Daniel E. Green I found an image of his incisive pastel portrait of Robert Beverly Hale (left). Hale was probably the foremost teacher of figure drawing and artistic anatomy in America. He was Curator of the American Painting and Sculpture Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Instructor of Drawing…

  • Virgil Finlay

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    Virgil Finlay was one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy artists. He started working for Weird Tales in 1935 and continued to work for that magazine and others for over 35 years. He was a prolific artist and created more than 2,500 images. Although Finlay created many color cover paintings for magazines, the majority…

  • Stephen Wiltshire – memory drawing

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    Here’s a question for those of you who draw from life: How often and how long do you look at your subject when drawing? Do you look up at the model or scene frequently, grabbing a fresh impression for each tiny bit of drawing, or do you take in as much as you can in…

  • David Horsey

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    Editorial cartoonists are usually noted for their point of view and their ability to point out the foibles and absurdities of our political and social institutions. I also take particular note of them, however, just for their drawings. Some editorial cartoonists are among the best cartoon illustrators we have. A case in point is David…

  • Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Betty Edwards)

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    I have long been a firm believer in the idea that drawing is a skill that can be taught and not a magical gift bestowed on some individuals and denied others. We live in a culture (at least in America) that doesn’t value drawing as a worthwhile skill in the general sense. “Everybody can’t be…

  • Alphonse Mucha

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    Alfons Mucha, whose name is usually Anglicised as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter and graphic artist. While living in Paris in he late 1800’s he adopted a style that was to to become what most of us think of as Art Nouveau (orginally referred to as “Le style Mucha”). Mucha disliked the term “Art…