Friday, November 29, 2013

Garret's Doodle


This 5"x 3" doodle is created with ball-point pen and some shading with a graphite pencil. For more doodles go here
 
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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Garret McFann

 pencil on 8.5x 11 bond paper 

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Samuel Nelson Abbott (attrib.) (1874-1953)


Samuel Nelson Abbott (attrib.) (1874-1953)
 

 

Publication information: Advertisement for Hart, Schaffner & Marx, CA. 1915.
Medium: oil on canvas board en grisaille
Size: 26.75 x 13.5”


Sunday, November 24, 2013

Friday, November 22, 2013

Jungle Book Pencil Test

"IT'S FILM FRIDAY"
Baloo sees Mowgli


In animation, a pencil test is a movie made from the original rough pencil drawings. Pencil tests are made so that animators can see what their animation looks like in motion before the drawings get sent off to be inked and painted and eventually shown in the finished movie....................the urbandictionary.com


Found on the FloobyNooby blog

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Young Rembrandt van Rijn


 1630
  etching

 

'Self Portrait', Wide-Eyed
1630
etching
51 x 46mm.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam


rembrandtpainting.net
Self Portrait with Loose Hair
c. 1631
145 x 117 mm.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Rembrandt's Self Portraits (http://www.rembrandtpainting.net)

It wasn't until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when scholars studied Rembrandt's oeuvre as a whole, that it was discovered how very many times the artist had portrayed himself. The number is still a matter of contention, but it seems he depicted himself in approximately forty to fifty extant paintings, about thirty-two etchings, and seven drawings. It is an output unique in history; most artists produce only a handful of self-portraits, if that. And why Rembrandt did this is one of the great mysteries of art history. ............... to continue reading this go here




Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Creative Illustration (1947). Andrew Loomis.


 These pictures were scanned from the book Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis and was intended for the artist who wish to make illustration a career.

This book, as well as  other books of his, have been republished and are again ready for consumption by eager art students.


























   These bottom two images are from :

Figure Drawing for All It's Worth





Monday, November 18, 2013

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (French, 1815-1891)

 
Black ink, gray wash, and white gouache on brown paper
33.1 x 23.5 cm (13 1/16 x 9 1/4 in.)


Rescanned from gurneyjourney

Oil on paper laid down on board
14¾ x 10½ in. (37.5 x 26.7 cm.) 


Sunday, November 17, 2013

Charles Bargue Drawing Course

 rescanned from the following tumblr source


Charles Bargue Drawing Course 

 

 rescanned from the following tumblr source



Friday, November 15, 2013

ALEXEI ALEKSEEVICH HARLAMOFF (SARATOV)


ALEXEI ALEKSEEVICH HARLAMOFF (SARATOV 1840 – PARIS 1922) Portrait of a Young Woman signed ‘Harlamoff’ (lower left) charcoal on paper 510 x 370 mm (20 x 14 ½ in) - See more at: http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/london-master-drawing/#sthash.tE1X1KJ9.dpuf
ALEXEI ALEKSEEVICH HARLAMOFF (SARATOV 1840 – PARIS 1922) Portrait of a Young Woman signed ‘Harlamoff’ (lower left) charcoal on paper 510 x 370 mm (20 x 14 ½ in) - See more at: http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/london-master-drawing/#sthash.JNFqxkw1.dpuf
ALEXEI ALEKSEEVICH HARLAMOFF (SARATOV 1840 – PARIS 1922) Portrait of a Young Woman signed ‘Harlamoff’ (lower left) charcoal on paper 510 x 370 mm (20 x 14 ½ in) - See more at: http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/london-master-drawing/#sthash.tE1X1KJ9.dpuf
Alexei Alexeievich Harlamoff (or Alexej Harlamoff - Alexej Charlamoff) (1840–1925)

ALEXEI ALEKSEEVICH HARLAMOFF (SARATOV 1840 – PARIS 1922) Portrait of a Young Woman signed ‘Harlamoff’ (lower left) charcoal on paper 510 x 370 mm (20 x 14 ½ in) - See more at: http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/london-master-drawing/#sthash.tE1X1KJ9.dpuf
ALEXEI ALEKSEEVICH HARLAMOFF (SARATOV 1840 – PARIS 1922) Portrait of a Young Woman signed ‘Harlamoff’ (lower left) charcoal on paper 510 x 370 mm (20 x 14 ½ in) - See more at: http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/london-master-drawing/#sthash.JNFqxkw1.dpuf

Thursday, November 14, 2013

BERNINI


 'Modelling in clay is to the sculptor what drawing on paper is to the painter… In the soft clay the genius of the artist is seen in its utmost purity and truth…'
Johann Joachi, Winckelmann, History of Art, 1776




 

                                                      
     Images and quote above are from the Victoria and Albert Museum website  

      
From left to right:
A River God, Giovanni Bologna, about 1575. Museum no. 250-1876, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Sketch model of Pope Alexander VII, Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini, Italy, 1669-70. Museum no. A.17-1932, © Victoria and Albert Museum, London



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From the The Metropolitan Museum of Art website


 Bernini in Action: Gesture and Technique in Clay
In conjunction with the exhibition Bernini: Sculpting in Clay (on view October 3, 2012–January 6, 2013), Anthony Sigel, Guest Curator, and Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums, outlines the research and discoveries he and his fellow curators made in preparation for the exhibition. By researching Bernini's methods, Sigel has determined which figures Bernini created himself and which ones were likely created by assistants. His lecture includes his own photographs of the models and detailed descriptions of Bernini's methods.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Anatomical Plates

 
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  About This Plate:                  
Descriptive Title:   Muscles of the back, shoulder and buttocks.                                                                                                                                              
Actual Title:   Tome 2. Pl. 83      
Artist:   Jacob, Nicolas Henri, 1781-1871
Technique:   lithography, with hand-colouring
Dimensions:   39 x 22 cm.
 

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About This Plate:


Descriptive Title:   Facial muscles, masticatory muscles, neck muscles.
Actual Title:   Tome 2. Pl. 95
Artist:   Jacob, Nicolas Henri, 1781-1871
Technique:   lithography, with hand-colouring
Dimensions:   38 x 26 cm.                

Planographic processes

The principal planographic process employed in book illustration is lithography [14], invented by Alois Senefelder in 1798. As the name implies, lithographs were originally produced on a stone, though later zinc plates were used. Coloured or tinted inks were used from around 1830 to produce tinted lithographs which were then finished with hand-colouring [15]. Chromolithography, patented in 1837, employed multiple stones, one for each colour, requiring considerable skill in alignment [16]. By the 1830s lithography became the most common form of medical illustration, and remained so for the remainder of the century and beyond.
Plates were signed in a similar way to intaglio plates, with the artist's name to the right, the person responsible for transferring the image to the plate on the left, and often the name of the lithographic printer added in the centre [17]

For more information on different printing techniques from the aforementioned website go here


Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Jesse Fell.

   



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preliminary drawings in preparation for sculptural bust of Jesse Fell














Saturday, November 9, 2013

Bare In The Woods

                          

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