'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 [...]
I've long given over the fight for my studio chair. So much so that he now enjoys a nice comfortable blanket. That's not to stop him from sitting on drawings or paintings. Many have been discarded with his signature muddy footprint. But such is the cost of the comfort of a cat.
Had a bit of time to do some leg studies of the caribou at the ROM this week. Danger of sitting too close is to screw up the proportion (as I did in the lower right study). One word only: ouch! Need to pay attention next time.
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 [...]
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, [...]
We didn't hit the magic number needed to run it at Seneca, but the course lives on out of my studio in Guelph.Course outline remains the same: same great model Ed, same visit to University of Guelph Anatomy Labs Tuesday and a beautiful place to run it in - Guelph!Contact me to enroll and for [...]
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
15 x 26" 8B on mat board
One of today's studies: 7B pencil on 9.5 x 17 mat board