The Craft of Hand Drawing
/in drawing workshops /by alexProviding remote hand drawing lessons to a group of ten year olds has its challenges. It’s not easy conveying the speed and flow of an arm movement when you’re looking at a blurry and sometimes glitchy video feed.
Moving from an Initial Sketch to Compositional Value/Color Studies
/0 Comments/in composition /by alexNotan and Compositional Rhythms Each painter uses different approaches for communicating an idea or feeling by means of
Scribbles of Figures in an Environment
/0 Comments/in from my sketchbook /by alexHere’s a selection of scribble drawings that I’m working on. These sketches are done from memory. The compositions are completely unplanned, and grow out of a process of “choreographed scribbles”. I keep scribbling until I can identify the potential figures, landscape elements, and other objects.
1/3rd-Scale Detailed Skeleton Model
/0 Comments/in anatomy /by alexA WONDERFUL WAY TO STUDY THE HUMAN FIGURE I just purchased a very good quality model of the human skeleton. The model is designed to be movable, and was created by a painter from the West Coast. The proportions of the skeleton are
A More Grounded Drawing Experience
/0 Comments/in exhibits /by alexFigure Drawings and Paintings on Exhibit at the Roost Gallery in New Paltz: November 14th through December 7th There’s a touching set of documentaries about a community of carpet weavers in the Isfahan and Arak regions of Iran 1. These weavers sit side by side at a large loom. They work together on the same […]
Dancing Figure for Survey Painting
/0 Comments/in figure painting /by alexThe dancing figure that I had drawn last year found its way into a painting that I recently completed.
Demonstration Drawing
/0 Comments/in life drawing /by alexHere’s a time lapse video of me drawing my hand (as seen in a mirror). The actual drawing took about an hour. One reservation I have about posting these kind of videos is that they risk giving the impression that drawing from life is a quick and easy process. In reality, there are years of […]
Expression through Composition — Gérôme’s Duel After the Masquerade
/0 Comments/in geometry /by alexHow can composition in general — and compositional geometry in particular — help artists express universal human ideas and feelings in specific pictorial scenes?
Julian Lesson with Durer’s Perspective Grid
/0 Comments/in perspective /by alexFor the past eight Thursdays I’ve been helping our neighbor’s thirteen year old son, Julian, to develop his observational drawing skills. In an age where anyone can take a photograph of anything in their environment with their iPhone, it seems to be increasingly rare to find a young person who has an interest in directly […]