I cropped yesterday’s photo (Draped Bust) purposely to create ambiguity: Was the sculpture of drapes, or was there an underlying sculpture covered by a drape? The sketch below is a sketch of the uncropped photograph.
Yikes! I didn’t know my sinuses went that far back.
I’m having fun renewing my acquaintance with sketching. Just a few pencil strokes can shade more effectively than spending lots of time carefully perfecting dark-to-light gradients. Now, my challenge is to tighten up on the spatial relationships among facial features. If you look back on other quarantine self portraits in this series, you can see […]
I looked carefully at one of Cézanne’s sketches of his son. I think he sketched the shapes that made up the face, not facial features. This is a different way of sketching, a different way of seeing. We’ll see how it goes.
The other day, I treated myself to a book about Cézanne, one of my favorite artists. I was inspired by his spare sketches, to concentrate on broad pencil strokes rather than replicating details. The study below is not Cézanne-esque, but is, perhaps the start of a new direction for my self portrait sketches.
Back in the days of black and white, when I was a tyke, my grandmother took me to the automat. I love the art deco stainless steel on the Dine-O-Mat. This wasn’t the way I remembered the one my grandma took me to, but it made me nostalgic anyway.
I broke the routine today, and put on my photographer’s cap, to design the self portrait below. Placement of the image adds to the mood of the photograph, or in this case, the sketch. The way I framed today’s self portrait gives the image a claustrophobic feeling. This is a good way to convey the […]
Most (if not all) of my quarantine self portraits have used a photo booth (app) photograph as reference for my sketch. Today I flipped the camera to selfie mode to take the reference picture. The resolution was much higher and I could zoom in for a close look at details. One can tell from the […]
