All Entries Tagged With: "Sketches"
Accurate drawing before painting
In my obsessive quest to learn as much as possible about the process of creating successful oil paintings, I am reading Richard Schmid’s highly acclaimed book, Alla Prima. My project for this weekend is to take some of the elements I have learned from my month of drawing exercises and apply them to my painting [...]
Guess the portrait, get an apron!
This will be my last graphite drawing for a while. I have decided that I need to get back to the brushes and start making some progress on my painting. I must admit though, these drawing exercises have been a good study in observation and control. They have really taught me to look for the [...]
Graphite Portrait
I figure I am kidding myself to think I can paint a portrait if I can’t draw one. So, more drawing it is. I am trying to focus on the anatomical foundation of facial features as well as the delicate values that define them. I don’t think I would ever paint to this level of [...]
Lake Garda Hotel Sketch
This is a sketch of a really sweet looking hotel we saw while visiting Lake Garda in Italy last summer. It was a beautiful clear day and the harsh light on the building caught my eye. I am trying to focus on values and edges at the moment and sketching seems like the best way [...]
English Cottage Sketch
I’ve been pouring over my new Richard Schmid book, “The Landscapes,” for the past week feeling motivated and wholly inadequate at the same time. I have to keep telling myself that this guy has a few decades of canvas on me. What was also mildly depressing was that the paintings in the book from 1967 [...]
DSFDF Portrait Challenge Drawing
It has been a while since I have participated in a “Different Strokes for Different Folks” challenge but this one looked like fun! At the end of the year, Karin Jurick asks participants to photograph themselves and email her the photo. She then randomly takes the photo of another participant and sends it to you [...]
Graphite Landscape Sketches
Since I can’t paint everyday, why not draw everyday? It really shouldn’t be that hard to find an hour a day to put some graphite to paper. What’s more, every professional artist I have talked to says it will ultimately help my painting. To get started, I picked up some Prismacolor woodless graphite pencils and [...]
Ponte Vecchio Sketch
Time to get back to the business of painting. I have taken quite a break due to my vacation and then recovering at work after taking vacation. I am sure some of you know how it goes! Well, I hope I don’t drive myself batty with detail on this one. This picture, which was taken [...]
“A Companion of Diana” Charcoal Sketch
This piece was done from a photograph provided on the blog Different Strokes From Different Folks, where artists are encouraged to paint or draw their own interpretations. In Karin Jurick’s post, she reminds everyone to continually hone their drawing skills to become a better painter. Liking the complexity and intent of the challenge, I decided [...]