"One must keep right on drawing; draw with your eyes when you cannot draw with a pencil." Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Ink Wash drawing of Rivers ca. 1993

Wonderful book by Robert Henri, "The Art Spirit."
Watch out, life drawing students, we will be practicing memory drawing

From Drawing to Painting
Composition 101
Self Portraits
Fun Fun Fun!!!! you are your best model.

Cool Artists of the week

Catherine Kehoe
You can learn so much by just looking at these paintings. Catherine uses the least amount of detail but knows her value notan. Great compositions and color choices. Very very powerful.
She is holding a workshop this summer in Tuscany. Very tempting.
Look at her wonderful drawings! Always well designed!

Hagit Barkai
Emotion. Simple suggestions of form. Look Look Look!

James Linkous
It is what James leaves out that makes the image more powerful.
Life drawing students - think twice, draw once.

Katy Stone
Contemporary drawing in 3-D. One of my passions.
Katy uses dura lar with paint and drawing. Cut outs that utilize light to make shadow part of the drawing experience.

See you tomorrow.
Bring your imagination!

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SINGAPORE BIENNALE 2016

Lucky me. I arrived in Singapore to find their Biennale in the Singapore Art Museum and other Museums and institutions around town. It has been a great introduction to the Southeast Asian geography and culture. Many visits have pulled me out of an extreme state of jet lag and whetted my appetite to learn more about Southeast Asia. Singapore Biennale AN ATLAS OF MIRRORS - AT ONCE, MANY WORLDS "In charting our way around the world, humankind has relied on instruments of vision as well as navigation. Atlases map and mirror our journeys of discovery and often make visible more than just physical terrain; driven by our needs and desires, they embolden us to venture into the unknown. From our coordinates in Southeast Asia, the arc of our shared histories encompasses East and South Asia. These regions bear the imprints of one another's diverse cultures, even as boundaries are also constantly reimagined. Fraught and unstable, these borders are characterized by fluid mo

Cone of Chaos Graphite on Museum Board 40 x 60"

Monday figures at ArtServe- July 19

It's a Sonya kind of morning tomorrow! We will carry on with gestures, measuring and proportion. Come join us for monday meditation. Cool Artists of the week. Just for fun: Giuseppe Arcimboldo http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/ Charles W. Dwyer http://www.onessimofineart.com/artists/Dwyer/Charles_Dwyer_Originals.html And now for something completely different Anthony Green from the UK http://anthonygreen.org.uk/paintings.html Mercedes Helnwein Incredible pencil drawings - Check out her "journal" or blog http://www.mercedeshelnwein.com/ Enjoy! Happy summer. See you tomorrow!

Elizabeth Reed - Trouvaille (Something lovely found by chance)

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