Saturday, March 29, 2008
Amtrak Drawing
I enjoy drawing other passengers on Amtrak without their knowledge. This makes me feel slightly bad, but I do make them look very nice.. make them look prettier or better than the look while sleeping or reading.. etc.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
The Way We Work
Listening to the Puppini Sisters and Rufus Wainwright with some Keely Smith thrown in, classy. Loving the week off to work!
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Copied from the Portrait of Johann Gottfried von Herder created by Johann Friedrich Bierlein, graphite on parchment covered by a white ground. It resides in the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery. Johann Gottfried von Herder was a famed writer residing in Weimar at the time of the portrait. My version is 5x7 inches, orginal is 8x5inches. If you are wondering why all the portraits, I'm trying to assemble a cast to put in a larger drawing.. wait and see!
Empress Maria Amalia
Monday, March 24, 2008
Thomas Sutton
Beads
Kaunitz Sister
Mary I
Mary had kind of a rough life as Henry VIII's daughter, falling in and out of favor depending on which wife he had until she fell back into favor when her half-sister gained power and standing. She also kind of looked like a man in the engraving I was copying, however I was a bit kinder to her than the engraver. The engraving comes from this great used book I just got titled "Likeness in Line" published by the Victoria and Albert museum. I love the Victoria and Albert! Hooray for Tudor dress studies and the wild and wacky British crown.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Madame Hayard Wonky Copy
Copying Ingres is silly when I do it. I don't do it well, nor do I try to do it well. I'm interested in making his wackier subjects more attractive, but more off-balance. Perhaps I am successful, perhaps this is just another dumb thing I'm doing in my notebooks. Some of his pencil flourishes get so outlandishly wrong in my copy that the drawings make me laugh. I think I will revisit Mme. Hayard a few more times as she is delightfully funny-looking. She will fit nicely in with some of my pinups and invented statuary.
Underdrawings
Friday, March 21, 2008
Absolutely Gorgeous!
Wendy Edward's and Jerry Mischak's new firehouse renovation got featured in the New York Times! You've got to see this! Two of my favorite people in their incredible space. I saw it when it was in process and I must say the results are incredible!
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Darling in a Corner, the Blahs
Sunday, March 09, 2008
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