Category: Sketching
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Shari Blaukopf
Shari Blaukopf is a watercolor painter based in Montreal. She is a dedicated location sketcher, and you can find her sketches on a dedicated blog, as well as in a section on her website, and on the Urban Sketchers blog. Even in her more finished work, she maintains a feeling of the informal immediacy that…
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Mars Huang (B6 Drawing Man)
Mars Huang is an artist based in Japan (I think — most of the pieces are labeled as scenes from Japan and Taiwan). Though he signs his work “Mars”, his Tumblr blog credits him only as “B6 Drawing man”; it wasn’t until I followed a link to one of his process videos on Vimeo, that…
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Cherngzhi Lian
Cherngzhi Lian is an artist based in Singaapore who works primarily in acrylic and watercolor, as well as drawing media. There are galleries on his website, largely of scenes from his travels in Bhutan. There is a drop-down menu for subjects, accessed from “Painting” on the left (though I found it cranky in my copy…
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Eye Candy for Today: Gainsborough chalk study
Study of a Lady, Thomas Gainsborough In the Morgan Library and Museum. Image is also available on Google Art Project and Wikimedia Commons. A beautifully economical and gestural chalk drawing by Gainsborough; in white and black chalk on colored, prepared paper.
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Howard Brodie
Today is Memorial Day here in the U.S. Though primarily associated with a three-day weekend, barbecues and the unofficial start of summer, it is a day designated to honor those Americans who died while in military service. One way to do this, perhaps, is to develop a better understanding of the experiences of soldiers at…
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Parka Blogs’ art tools and gears
I’ve written before about a blog called The Tools Artists Use, which is based on the excellent concept of asking various illustrators and other artists about their primary working tools. The Tools Artists Use blog is taking a break, but the most recent post points out that Teoh Yi Chie of Parka Blogs (which I…