Drawing

Die Gedanken Sind Frei

'Die Gedanken Sind Frei'It's the 7th day of January 2015 and news out of Paris is that the offices of a satirical magazine were attacked by gunmen with the result of 12 dead and many injured.  Many of the dead were artists, or cartoonists as some would know them (unfortunately this always carries a connotation [...]

By | 2018-06-09T17:40:21+00:00 January 7th, 2015|Animal Studies, Drawing|0 Comments

Variations on a gesture

Gestures can have many purposes: warm-up, expressive exploration, form studies, or even basis for skeletal or muscular studies.  They can be the loosest of scribbles or focused surgical strikes of lines.  They are probably the most honest of drawings since they are more from the heart than the head.  We feel,  we empathize, we react [...]

By | 2018-06-09T17:43:23+00:00 January 16th, 2014|Drawing, Figure Studies|0 Comments

Thoughts on Line Quality

Rembrandt study of an elephant, British MuseumThis post comes from a reply I wrote this evening to a question from one of my students who asked in response to my previous comment about his work what is line quality.  I thought I would post it since this is probably one of the most common questions, [...]

By | 2018-06-09T17:44:23+00:00 June 19th, 2012|Animal Studies, Drawing|1 Comment

Drawing Day June 22

Ed's left knee remained for the most part in the same place; Ed pivoting from front to back over it.Played around today with overlying sequences, and studies of the back and arms in an extreme pull. Compressed Charcoal on Arches 88 top and middle. Bottom 7B Stabilo pencil on Arches 88

By | 2018-06-09T17:47:20+00:00 June 23rd, 2011|Anatomy Studies, Drawing|3 Comments