Posts tagged with: art

A few weeks ago, I completed Bargue Plate 24 in graphite. I had started it, in charcoal and got about half way, but was feeling overwhelmed with the charcoal and wasn’t feeling I was going to reach the level of...
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From this week of early morning drawing sessions, I completed four small Rembrandt copies. The book I got these from is “The Complete Etchings of Rembrandt“. A lot of the etchings are pretty small, so my drawings are all a...
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For a while I’ve been really frustrated with going multiple days, and sometimes weeks, without drawing. I get busy with the necessities of life, with work, school, kids, and family life, so unfortunately drawing gets pushed to the bottom of...
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I don’t know how I had never heard of this artist before but I just discovered Bernard-Romain Julien. He’s a french artist that created many amazing drawings at the height of the classical realism movement that the Bargue Drawing Course came...
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This weeks drawing was a master copy from Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Its a beautiful graphite figure that I loved to look like, so I knew doing a copy would be fun. I found this drawing in “Lessons in Classical Drawing” by...
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My favorite way to show off  progress in learning art journey is to redraw something already done before. It’s a lot of fun and honestly, I think, people love seeing that improvement in your work. I’ve redrawn portraits before, but...
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Lately, one of my favorite books to learn from about portrait drawing is “The Human Figure” by John H. Vanderpoel. The book is practical and easy to follow. It’s broken up into manageable segments and allows you to learn and...
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I did continue to work on my Bargue Plate 24. I continued using only vine as I finished up the main outlines of the arm....
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I’ve started work on Bargue Plate 24. Its a plate I’ve wanted to copy for some time now, and I’m happy to finally get it going. I’m doing this one in charcoal and so far I have only used vine...
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Updates on some progress. Most recently, I completed a part of Bargue Plate 4. Plate 4 has many ears using Nitram Charcoal. Since I was using the actual book as reference and not a blown up copy of the plate,...
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