Drawing Exercises: Master Pastiches & Drapery

March 20, 2014

ebony pencil drawings on paper, 13″ x 9″ • collection of the artist 1963. Sophomore year, I started taking classes in my selected major — Apparel Design — to which was devoted the better part of three days. The other two days were taken up with continuing classes in 2-D Design and 3-D Design — […]

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Absolutely Abstract?

March 19, 2014

PrismaColor pencils on black color-aid paper, 13.5″ x 10″ • collection of the artist S 1962-63. In addition to 9 hours of Life Drawing per week, plus 3 hours of Calligraphy and 3 hours of Nature Drawing, Freshman Foundation included 3 hours of Perspective Drawing, plus 6 hours per week of both 2-Dimenisonal Design and […]

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Nature Drawing 102

March 18, 2014

By the way, anyone recognize what kind of ‘duck’ was portrayed in yesterday’s drawing? I’m clueless. ebony pencil on grey-toned rib-laid charcoal paper, 19″ x 25″ • collection of the artist $ Today’s drawing of an owl is dated March 18, 1963 — 51 years ago Monday. Since yesterday’s ‘duck’ was dated the day before […]

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Nature Drawing 101

March 17, 2014

So did anyone notice the typo in yesterday’s calligraphy? end of the first verse, a ‘tinkling symbol’ instead of the intended ‘tinkling cymbal’? A mistake that even I missed 51 years ago, caught up as I was in confusing phonetics. Good catch by Thornton classmate Judy Hargreaves-Fichtenbaum who enjoyed the play on words created by […]

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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels…

March 16, 2014

chancery italic calligraphy on vellum paper, 16″ x 14″ • collection of the artist $ Spring 1963. Sunday thoughts from I Corinthians 13: 1-13. The only other survivor of the many assignments accomplished for calligraphy class freshman year is this text, rendered like yesterday’s featured artwork in chancery italic, one of the most lyrical of […]

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Comfort Ye My People…

March 15, 2014

chancery italic calligraphy on vellum paper, 15″ x 12″ • collection of the artist $ Spring 1963. Sabbath thoughts from Isaiah 40: 1-5 and 9. In addition to nine hours of Life Drawing each week as part of RISD’s Freshman Foundation, I was challenged by several other required studio courses, usually scheduled in 3-hour increments: […]

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Can Spring be far behind?

March 14, 2014

photograph taken March 19, 2010

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Life Drawing 101

March 13, 2014

charcoal drawings on newsprint, 24″ x 18″ • collection of the artist 1962. So how did I wind up at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design), one of the most prestigious art schools in the country, a school I had never even heard of before my senior year in high school? Must have been the […]

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Spring Ahead…

March 12, 2014

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“And gladly would he learn…”

March 11, 2014

I made the statement a few days ago that no drawings by my hand exist between the creation of the skinny yellow clown drawn at age nine, which I posted January 12, and my drawings for As You Like It done at age fourteen, which I posted February 24. I lied. A small 4″ x […]

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Sayonara

March 10, 2014

gouache on blue cardboard, 24″ x 22″ • collection of the artist 1961. Back-tracking to spring of my junior year at TA — Prom Time with the theme Sayonara. Despite the fact that I wasn’t supposed to dance, the dancer in my heart volunteered to help the prom committee composed of friends prepare for the […]

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Illusions of Artistry… Now & Then

March 9, 2014

2 pencil drawings on paper, each 11″ x 8.5″ (detail of right drawing below) • mounted on black foamcore, framed in walnut 21.5″ x 27.5″ • collection of the artist $ Since Mercury is now direct, and I’ve posted a whole series of paintings and photographs requiring few words that portray my view N by […]

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Hot Town, Summer in the City…

March 8, 2014

aka N by NW Center City #8, oil on linen, 17″ x 24″ • collection of the artist $ 2012. Summer in the City was the theme chosen for the DaVinci Art Alliance’s annual July members exhibition. My thoughts turned to a series of photos I had taken of some roofers working on top of […]

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Eyes on the Skies

March 7, 2014

aka N by NW Center City #7, oil on plywood panel, 18.5″ x 11.5″, framed in oak and walnut, 24″ x 17″ • collection of the artist $ 2012. January was a month of sketching, reading, thinking about making art. Oil painting got off to a slow start in early February, with my seventh attempt […]

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Center City #5 — Morning Light

March 6, 2014

oil on prepared unprimed pine slab, ca. 14.5″ x 5.5″ • collection of Heinz & Diane Sauk-Schubert 2011 — Center City seen in early morning light. Occasionally pieces of wood come to hand that have interesting burl patterns or knots which are just too artfully beautiful to cover over with paint. Such was the case […]

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