Wednesday, April 01, 2009

working from a master


Drawings by John Whalley are stunning. I saw one in the Portland (ME) art museum and then bought a book of his work.

Sketching hyperrealism--the ultimate in artistic oxymorons.

Doing a version of a master's work teaches me how they see detail that I'd never notice.

5B pencil on 60# sketchpaper. Paper and color are distorted by a water sketch on the reverse, plus my scanner's blueish contribution.

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