It's a pleasant surprise to find great big enlargments of Michelangelo drawings on the Tube.
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Interesting article here by Waldemar Janusczcak in the Sunday times Magazine, 5th March 2006.
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This is a copy I made from a Michelangelo drawing on the advice of a fine artist I once worked with on a job in Cardiff.
It's a good exercise & helps you learn a lot about what kind of marks best portray form, bone, hair, light on skin etc. But I got the ear in the wrong place though!
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Found this illustration by John Glasham in a collection of his work. I was not familiar with this artist & thank man about town Brendan Amphlett for introducing it to me!
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'TUTTO SPIRITO E FOCO'
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The second show I saw, & even more grandly titled than the Michelangelo, is 'Tiepolo: All Spirit & Fire' at the Courtauld Institute. It's a fine collection of oil sketches made as quick studies to work out compositions & get client approval before embarking on the finished fresco. The man could make a ceiling look like this -
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These are some quick thumbnails I made while I was there.
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some great drawings matt. like the rock studies - they remind me of the russian painter shiskin . i always have his book by my desk .
ReplyDeleteWow...Cool! So inspiring..Etc. Etc.
ReplyDeletethanks for this report. Matt.
ReplyDeleteI hope everything is going very well.
I'll call you soon for drikkkggkgkgks
Never heard of him.
ReplyDeleteKarl, fascinating essay - especially the section the seated, male nude twisting. Thanks for the link.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful drawings ! You have a lot of guts (metaphorically spoken of course) to place your drawings underneath the Master's painting.
ReplyDeleteRespect !
as alway's !
Hey Gurbs welcome back maestro. Hope you can get to Playlounge this week? Let me know how it goes.
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