Pastels on canvas
These two recent pastel drawings are on canvas. Primed canvas is an unusual support for pastels or charcoal because it's not absorbent enough. Pastel chalk falls off too easily. I originally intended to use these canvases…
Category: Drawings
Drawing, drawing, drawing
Drawing is the heart and soul of art. If the drawing is strong, you have to work hard to screw up a painting. If the drawing is weak, you have to work hard to just produce…
Starting a painting
After completing the cartoon for this painting, I transferred it to a canvas, as you can see in the photo. A cartoon, I remind you, is a drawing used as a template for a painting. Cartoons are…
In the studio 12/6/15
I spent most of my time recently working on new paintings that are still too raw to show. I am also working on a new cycle of pieces that are still in the drawing stage. I…
Busy drawing day
I spent the past the several days drawing. Yesterday I started drawing on 2 new canvases: Euclid Avenue (48" x 60"), and Sunday (42" x 56"). The day before, I started the 40" x 50"…
Drawing session on the painting titled The Photographer
I had a good drawing session on the painting titled The Photographer this morning. This painting of a single figure is 32" x 48." I think one more session will be enough. When I mentioned…
Durer prints at the Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland's exhibition, housed in two small rooms off the atrium, is small put potent. Durer is one of the towering figures in Western art. His drawing prowess is unrivaled--some few have matched him but none have surpassed…