September 2014 – Art Monk

This is my bottle project. I did it! Advertisements

On a cool Wednesday we put away our easels at the end of our morning session and pulled up stools or sat on the floor in a semi-circle around Juliette.

Myron Barnstone was my teacher’s first teacher.

Today we looked at plates made from sketchbooks of the old master draftsmen (Rubens, Poussin, Da Vinci and Dürer to name a few) and talked about their methods.

If you want a comprehensive text about the psychological and technical aspects of fine drawing, look no further than Harold Speed’s The Practice & Science of Drawing (1917).

Wouldn’t you know it. Amidst pencil honing, cast drawing and attempts at monastic focus, life was going on simultaneously.

The really early stuff I totally nailed it and went to 6 a.m. yoga like a boss with a packed breakfast and lunch and day clothes and face wash and everything.

Earlier this evening while I was sitting on the couch sharpening pencils for tomorrow, Billy my mother-in-law’s boyfriend read me some facts about pencils.

I keep thinking about a note a friend sent over the weekend:

All articles filed in September 2014

Hitting the Bottle

In Art as in Life

A Toolbox Full of Triangles

You Can’t Outthink the Old Masters

Harold Speed on Vision

Life Creeps In

The Drawing Board

Day One

Pencils

3, 2, 1