Mini Rome Ink Sketch

Another sketch done in Rome.  This one is 2x3 inches.  Drawing small forces you to abbreviate the details.... thus teaching you to think in ink.

Rome Sketch in Ink

This is a sketch I did while in Rome.  I love ink sketching.

Sculpting David's Eye at the Beaux-Arts Academy

I was just wanting to post something since it has been a long while.  I am copying David's eye in water clay.  It has been way fun.  The nose is the last feature that I get to sculpt.

Studies after Michelangelo

 

All of these are for sale on etsy:

They are all brown/sepia ink with a wash of watercolor.  

Beaux-Arts Academy Arts & Architecture in UTAH!!!!!

Its not very often that I post something that isn't my own art.  Why? because this is my art blog.  Anyway I am going to be attending a school in Salt Lake City that will teach arts and architecture in a classical and traditional way.  Everything from wash rendering to multi-figure painting.  I have been waiting for training like this for years.....and I am so excited.  This is the website http://www.baa-utah.com/ .

Drawing after Michelangelo

I did this drawing after Michelangelo.  I used homemade charcoal on watercolor, toned paper.  I may start selling these copies???  I am learning so much from Michelangelo!!!

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First Sculpture after Michelangelos' "David"

Copy sculpture of Michelangelos' "David".  This is so much fun!!!  I rigged this setup to hang the sculpture on my wall.

Arthur William Brown Charcoal Copy

I copied a drawing done by Arthur William Brown.  

He was an illustrator and a good friend of F.R. Gruger.

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George Bridgman Copies

This is another George Bridgman copy.  I love how much his drawings can say.  

George Bridgman Copies

I have made copies of George Bridgman's book (Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing form Life).  I use charcoal on tinted paper to copy gesture and line quality.  I love George Bridgman's ability to take the human form and describe it simply.  

Charles Bargue and Gerome copy Drawing

So this is a horse head that I copied in pencil.  This is form the Charles Bargue and Gerome  Drawing course book.  Doing these drawings has trained my eyes to see better.  I was under the direction of Ryan Brown and Niki Covington.  Ryan has an art school called The Center for Academic Study & Naturalist Painting (CAS), in Springville, Utah.

More Italian Copy Drawings

Here are two more copy drawings I did from the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon.  I tried a new experiment.  The bottom sketches were done in front of the Italian drawing.  Then I would abandon my sketches and go to the next room where the upper image was done from memory.  I don't think they are as successful as the last ones.  I only had two hours of time, I wish I had all day.  The security guard kept eyeing me.  But.... he also provided me with a chair to accomplish my experiment. 

Real Italian Copy Drawings!!!!

I heard the Hallie Ford Museum of Art in Salem, Oregon http://www.willamette.edu/arts/hfma/exhibitions/library/2011-12/timeless_renaissance.html was having a collection of real Italian renaissance drawings. Before this exhibit I have never seen a real renaissance drawing in person. These were collected by Count Alessandro Maggiori (1764-1834). I also learned that one could go and do copies of these drawings. I was so excited to go and do some copies. So these are some copies that I did of the drawings. Sorry I don't have photos of the real things. You will just have to imagine that I did a good job. I am so thankful for the museum in letting people do copies.

Why do copies??? If you have a purpose in mind you can learn much. If you have no purpose you are wasting your time. I have others that I will post maybe????

Just some apples.

I have been looking at David Laffels work, these are some of
his apples that I copied.