Archive for June, 2009
Figure drawing using a virtual model
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Many years ago several friends and I hired a model for three hours every Wednesday night, for about three years. We drawers all felt that we made terrific progress in training our eyes and muscles to capture the poses in front of us. I can liken it to when as Budgie (read my original post that mentions us) my musical partner and I played four sets a night for a year in a Washington, D.C. club. You can’t help but bring your skills up to the mad level, as the kids today might say. The flip side is that when you stop drawing or playing guitar as much, you lose the chops you had developed. I play the guitar everyday, but it’s been years since I’ve had the chance to draw from a model. Then recently it occurred to me that there must be images of figure poses out there somewhere. (more…)
Tags: drawing, figure drawing
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Boggs’s Bills – Money for Art’s Sake
Monday, June 15th, 2009
J. S. G. Boggs | $5000 bill
I want to write a little bit about the artist James Stephen George Boggs. I’d have to call him a conceptual artist as well as a superior draftsman. All his artwork is money and is about money. He’s an artist/philosopher. (more…)
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Hello.
I'm Stephen Springer Davis
I'm a pretty much self-taught and pretty much unknown artist and designer living near Philadelphia. The plan is to tell you about my artwork, why I do it, maybe how I do it, and also about other artists who've inspired me along the way.
My definition of the term "painting" will remain intentionally broad so I can talk about anything that interests me.
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