Life Drawing Gymnastics

I combined not just artist and model (self-portraiture), but artist-model-athlete in my Life Drawing Gymnastics series. In my Life Drawing Gymnastics series, I attempted to do more than simply draw from life , but rather allowed life to be a large part...(read more)

Source: http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/drawing/archive/2011/07/28/life-drawing-gymnastics.aspx

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One of a series

I've been working on the annual report and accounts for the charity Abbeyfield. The charity is the result of the vision of the inspirational Richard Carr-Gomm. And this year, the incidental images throughout the annual report reflected the theme of companionship and love across the generations. This one was my favourite, because it shows my father enjoying a moment of pulling faces at my son Xavier.

Source: http://julieoakley.blogspot.com/2011/08/one-of-series.html

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Figure Drawings by Ed Hall

This guy can really draw. You don't need 500 pages of figure drawings to learn something from an artist - check out these figure sketches on Ed Hall's blog. In ...

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Source: http://drawsketch.about.com/b/2011/12/02/figure-drawings-by-ed-hall.htm

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Barack Obama Caricature

Showed caricature to a guy who knows about design/photography. His comment: “Too finished”.

Wat? Too “finished”?
Have consequently adopted a new thoughtful philosophy regarding feedback
IGNORE EVERYONE!

Source: http://www.quarehawk.com/blog/2011/07/26/barack-obama-caricature/

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Thanks

Source: http://blogdelanine.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanks.html

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Move Over Hallmark! Holiday Card Contest Winner Announced!!!

I want to thank all of you for all the wonderful entries for this year's Move Over Hallmark! Holiday Card Contest.

Who needs to go buy a holiday card from a drug store when you're as creative as, well, all of you! You all have helped us celebrate the holiday season at Artist Daily and American Artist magazine by creating your own holiday "card" (or cards!) and one of them has become our holiday eCard, which we will send out to all of our professional contacts and friends in the arts community and at Interweave, our parent company, this holiday season.

And without further ado, let me congratulate Alan Bateman, whose acrylic painting, Boxing Day, is our 2011 holiday e-card. This painting was inspired by a sleigh ride over the snow-covered rolling hills of Nova Scotia. Congratulations, Alan, and thank you! Your art has made our holiday season complete!

Source: http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/artistdaily/archive/2011/12/13/holiday-card-contest-winner.aspx

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Art Can Live on Line Alone

When I think about how to draw the sights around me, my mind immediately starts envisioning line. For me, it is foundational for any good drawing. And I'm not alone. When I first saw artist Steven Ketchum's work I was amazed by all the ways he used line--and line alone--to make so many interesting and surprisingly emotive works. Here are a few of my favorites.

Ketchum isn't drawn to figures that are physically beautiful or idealized. In Yesterday's Party, a somewhat frowsy female figure is depicted with slightly wild hair and dark gaps in her mouth indicating missing or rotten teeth. But the look on her face is kind, and her smile is genuine and sweet. For Ketchum, the essence of beauty is not glamour but honesty coupled with compassion for the people he chooses to render.

Yesterday's Party by Steven Ketchum, 2010, ink on paper, 11 x 8.5.

Some of Ketchum's more poignant, if forlorn, works, such as Sign, feature figures with multiple hands or extra fingers. They may at first glance seem grotesque or disfigured, but Ketchum offers a different view. "I imagine someone who is desperate to have affection, to be loved, and how that, in a metaphorical sense, can mutate," he says. "How that genuine need can turn ugly and seem almost aggressive or scary--an act of desperation."

Ketchum is also not stumped by how to draw people with line, despite the volume and curves inherent in the human form.  In fact, he uses his drawings to play with the body in different states of action or movement. In Fall Down, Get Up, the figure is violently active, moving so fast he sports extra legs. He could be hurling through space, jerking from the impact of a bullet, having a seizure, or forcefully dancing.

Sign by Steven Ketchum, 2010, ink on paper, 30 x 22.			Get Up, Fall Down by Steven Ketchum, 2010, ink on paper, 24 x 18.

For Ketchum, drawing and sketching mastery is inextricably linked to mark making and line. In every issue of Drawing magazine, there is instruction and artist profiles that allow me to more fully understand how varied and exceptional line can be--along with shadows, hatching, gradation, curves, and all the rest of the tools a draftsman needs. I've learned so much from the artists in Drawing and I think your art deserves that same opportunity. Enjoy your subscription!

 

Source: http://www.artistdaily.com/blogs/artistdaily/archive/2011/12/05/art-can-live-on-line-alone.aspx

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