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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, where [...]

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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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Textural Bodypaint

Friday, January 15, 2010

Looking through my personal library this week, I came across an old book called “Design by Accident” by James F. O’Brien.  It’s full of ways to incorporate chance and natural phenomena into visual arts and crafts.  Just the Table of Contents makes me feel inspired, so I’ll share it here:
Tree Forms:  trunks and branches formed [...]

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Self Portrait

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

This is a self-portrait, drawn in 40 minutes this past Sunday evening.  The version above has been flipped across the vertical axis so it appears as I appear to others, rather than as I see myself in a mirror.  My self-portraits always look a bit angry.  I think it’s just the intensity of the artist’s [...]

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Light and Stone

Monday, December 7, 2009

Thomas William Brown is an art therapist and a stone carver.  Many of his works, like those seen above in a detail from an installation of sculptures shown in an exhibit last year at the gallery of the Art Students’ Leage of New York, are based on architectural motifs.  When he talks about his process, [...]

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