Drawing

What’s that line? Want to come up and see my etchings? Skip it. It’s a lame joke.

Here’s what I am doing these days. This is Albert Tucker, an Australian artist, and I drew a copy of his self-portrait, in a Sydney museum.

Another Aussie artist George Lambert painted this. I sketch paintings, sculpture, anything that stands still for 10 minutes. Also from Sydney’s
New South Wales museum.

Here’s the same Lambert painting done in about 5-10 minutes and with some color on my second visit to the museum…

Recently I visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and did this sketch of a Ginoux painting of the artist Paul Gauguin. My colors are vastly different of course.

I do a lot of figure drawing particularly sculptures like this one from the Musee D’Orsay in Paris.

This is a sketch of a Degas sculpture called “Dancer Holding Her Right Foot in Her Right Hand” also done in Sydney. Degas was famous for having subjects in weird positions. I am amazed he had a model do this.

This past September we were in Paris and took the high-speed TGV train out to Giverny for the day and saw Monet’s gardens. Many people know Monet’s famous bridge over the pond painting. This is the same pond. I drew this with ink and then used a brush wth water to get some color.

The one thing about Giverny that blew my mind is that Monet built the pond from scratch. It’s man made, but it’s still beautiful.

This is a sketch of a famous Dutch Admiral’s clay head from his tomb after the French killed him in a battle off Sicily. I sketched this at the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam in December ’06.

Here’s another attempt at ‘sketching a sketch’ so I can learn someone’s style, and in this case, the artist Lovis Corinth who did about 60 self-portraits (self absorbed, eh?) including this one which I liked because it was rather distorted and intense.

Most people don’t know Van Gogh ever drew traditional figures. I didn’t. I drew this at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and here’s a postcard of Van Gogh on the left and my sketch on the right.

I’ve decided if all the famous guys can do self-portraits, I should try it. Here’s one I did New Years Day 2006…