Drawing

ElegantMedia

see also: Projects, ElegantMedia, RandomIdeas, Books, Raphael, DancingDrawing, TheLivingLine

[Self:action=new;id=drawing New Drawing entry for today]

Quote card — Ingres said: 'Drawing is three-fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over the door of my atelier, I would write: School of Drawing... and I'm certain that I would create painters.'

Joseph-Benoît Suvée's The Invention of the Art of Drawing: the Corinthian maid traces her lover's lamplit shadow on the wall as he gazes up at her

Page from Rodin's conversations on art: asked if art is a kind of religion, he answers that its first commandment is to model well an arm, a torso, or a thigh

Alone on a bench in a crimson museum hall, hood up, notebook in hand, before Rubens' vast Martyrdom of Saint Livinus

From behind: drawing on a stone bench by a green pond, sketchbook open on crossed legs, locs down the back, trees doubled in the water

Standing at the lit vitrines of Degas bronzes — dancers mid-leap on their plinths — sketchbook raised, silhouetted in the amber museum light

Sitting small in red under a magnolia in full bloom at the pond's edge, drawing among the fallen petals

software

see also: ComputerAssistedDrawing, RealTime
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Tagtool - looks cool! need projector :9 http://www.omai.at/tagtool-for-ipad.html

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(often institutional)
Art Institute of Chicago
Accademia Carrara, Ambrosiana, Brera, Poldi Pezzoli, and other Lombard Collections
Ambrosiana, Biblioteca
Getty Museum
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Flemish Art Collections – Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, the Groeninge Museum Bruges and the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

2012-12-06

Colored-pencil drawing on gray paper: a dead tulip, petals collapsed like drapery over a ghost of yellow

2012-06-02_hospital_drawing

Sketchbook spread drawn from a hospital bed: flowers in a water glass by the curtain, the IV stand, and the cannulated hand with one line touched in pink

2010-04-30

Grayscale digital painting of two drooping peony buds, ink-dark leaves against a smudged white sky

2007-01-22

Torn scrap covered in handwritten 'yes yes yes' around a Tale of Tales Endless Forest calling card and a blue A PRIOR airmail sticker

2006-07-03_20h45_limits_of_two_revisited

Sketchbook pencil studies: a woman's downcast face, a dark heavily-shaded bearded man grimacing, and a faint construction-lines head

2006-06-10_08h37_Adam_drawing

Michelangelo-school marble Adam beside a charcoal master copy of the same statue, face left blank in the drawing

Drawing on a torn, burn-edged scrap: a pencil eye weeping a lattice of small blue teardrops, with the words something I don't trust written along the lid