(Featured image: a charcoal drawing on tone paper by Colleen Barry.) I should have long ago stated that my contemporary hero artist is Colleen Barry. Her drawing above, and some more of her work below: This last image is in Juliette’s book Lessons on Classical Drawing, where I first saw Colleen’s work. She lives in…
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Pastel Workshop, Year Two
On Friday we finished up our yearly pastel drawing workshop lead by one of our assistant teachers David.
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Three-Hour Portraits
I’ve mentioned a few times that I want to get better at drawing portraits this year. But how does one manage this when the first half of each day is devoted to painting the figure and the second half is all about still life?
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“Life Studies: What I Learned When I Learned to Draw,” by Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, June 2011
This profile from June 2011 of Jacob Collins is one of the best explanations of the classical realism atelier movement I’ve read.
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The Summer That Came and Went and Was Somehow Revolutionary
Dear Patient Readers: Year two is in full swing and where the heck have I been? Painting hard.
Read MoreThe Annual Aristides Atelier Show
Of course I didn’t think to take a picture of the drawing before I framed it.
Read MoreThe Cast Drawing
Exactly one month ago my long-labored cast drawing made its debut at our annual atelier show.
Read MoreBut will I have time to finish?
Unfortunately not in the way I had hoped.
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Top Secret
(Featured image: “Bacchanal” by contemporary Swedish painter Nicholas Alm. I saw paintings from this series at Arcadia Gallery in NYC during my trip.) For many emotions, what I’m about to show you must stay between us.
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The Sphere Project
This has been the most brutally obsessive project I have done at the atelier heretofore.
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Art Monk 