Artists
Master Drawing Mondays: Week 4
This was one of the first Master Drawings I ever copied. It’s a beautiful study of a man in a seated position. I love how you can see where Pontormo moved his lines to another spot. It really gives the drawing movement and kinetic energy. #MasterDrawingMondays
Read MoreMaster Drawing Mondays: Week 3
The challenge of Master Drawing Mondays is to set aside time to copy a drawing. You can either choose from one of the Dover books, or I will provide a weekly prompt from a museum collection. If you are on social media, use the hashtag #MasterDrawingMonday and tag me on Instagram @SarahHI. Let’s see how many out-of-practice artists we can encourage to take up a regular practice of copying the old masters!
Read MoreMaster Drawing Mondays: Week 2
Master Drawing Mondays: Week 2. Gustave Caillebotte’s Self-Portrait with a Hat. Gustave Caillebotte is one of my favorite French artists and I love the idea of getting to spend a little time with him while working on this drawing.
Caillebotte drew this self-portrait with graphite on off-white, medium-weight, moderately textured paper. #Masterdrawingmondays
Read MoreHappy Birthday, David Bowie
Happy Birthday, David Bowie It’s David Bowie’s Birthday today. He would have been 76. He died on January 10, 2016. I have never been as grieved at a celebrity death as I was when David Bowie went to be with the stars. Here is what I wrote the day after he died. David Bowie died…
Read MoreMaster Drawing Mondays: Week 1
Let’s begin with Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres! He is one of my favorite draughtsman and I just love this study of a nude female figure dancing, for the painting ‘The Golden Age’ (L’Age d’Or), drawn in 1839-1862 using graphite. #masterdrawingmondays
Read MoreMaster Drawing Mondays: Start Here
The challenge of Master Drawing Mondays is to set aside time to copy a drawing. You can either choose from a book, or I will provide a weekly prompt from a museum collection. If you are on social media, use the hashtag #MasterDrawingMonday and tag me on Instagram @SarahHI. Let’s see how many out-of-practice artists we can encourage to take up a regular practice of copying the old masters!
Read MoreThe Tiny Tools of the Trade
Tools are an extension of our own hands, but we always begin with what we already have. In this post I introduce you to my favorite tiny tools!
Read MoreA Story About Drawing
It was Tuesday Night Drawing group. If it weren’t so sacrilegious to say, it was our church. We never missed a Tuesday, even during that terrible snow storm last year. I walked the mile into town to draw.
Read MoreBig Ideas
eard that it was said that there is nothing new under the sun, but I am telling you that each unique fingerprint on each unique hand on each unique human being is here, arranged in this way with particular stories to tell, with a nuance that brings new meaning to our collective stories.
Read MoreSchool Shootings, Ash Wednesday, and Art
und the world. I don’t know that I have much to contribute to the conversation that hasn’t already been said, except that my heart is heavy.
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