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Synapse Opens September 2

Thursday, August 26, 2010

SYNAPSE, a group exhibition curated by Anthony Troncale 2/20 Gallery 220 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011 212-807-8348 September 2 – 16,  2010. Opening reception: Thurs., Sept. 2, 6:00 – 9:00pm rsvp:  atroncale@yahoo.com Artists included in the exhibition: Dan Leo David Schafer Eric Olson Marilyn McLaren Michelle Beshaw Josh Gura Anthony Troncale Bill Eldred, [...]

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Movement Multiples

Sunday, July 18, 2010

In the late 1990′s, an important focus of my drawing practice was capturing the energy of moving figures through expressive line.  This week’s post is a selection of drawings from 1997 through 1999.  All of these feature multiple renderings of the same pose in different positions.  It was my attempt to introduce the dimension of [...]

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Dancing Brush

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Drawing with ink and brush has a fluidity that captures the energy of motion.  The brush is sensitive to the slightest variations in pressure, rendering lines that have varying weight and dimension.  I have long favored this medium for movement drawing, where there is no time to develop the image through shading, color and details.  [...]

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Rhythmic Line

Sunday, February 7, 2010

A sense of rhythm is as central to the art of drawing as it is to music.  It is the movement of the artist’s hand that gives a drawing its sense of movement and life.  Strokes that are fluid and responsive imbue a sketch with vitality. I run a session at Spring Studio in Manhattan, [...]

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Give Me a Minute or Two

Friday, January 22, 2010

A typical traditional life drawing class starts with quick poses, one or two minutes each, and then proceeds to progressively longer poses.  Some people call quick poses “warm-ups”, reflecting the idea that a drawing session is like a workout.  For the artist, responding as quickly as possible limbers up the hand-eye coordination.  For the model, [...]

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