‘Buddha Statue at Plum Village, Upper Hamlet.’ graphite & ink A5 sketchbook (…) dharma art refers to art that springs from a certain state of mind on the part of the artist that could be called the meditative state. It is an attitude of directness and unselfconsciousness in one’s creative work. -Tibetan meditation master, the…
Category: Drawings
Drawings, quick sketches, elaborate drawings, scribbles, gesture drawings, composition works in progress; finished drawings, portraits, pencil, sanguine, conté, graphite
Bed Time Story 10 & 11
‘Bed Time Story 10 & 11’ Pencil & Ink A5 © Adam Cope ‘….. After months at sea, they found themselves in Baghdad. ” What a gorgeous city!” cried Emira. “Isn’t it! ” agreed Sinbad. He was delighted to be home… at least for a while.’ Sinbad the Sailor, retold by Katie Daynes. Usborne Ilustrated…
Orchestra Baroque de Toulouse
‘Orchestra Baroque de Toulouse’ pencil drawing A5 sketchbook © adam cope The last drawing went away from gesture & towards ‘shape’, which was where I was at in Urs Karpartz in Sarlat in July. I call it ‘hierachical’, static , the opposite of the dynamism of getsure drawing. The lok static & frozen. great…
Domestic Scene
‘Telly Fans 4’ pencil drawing of a child sitting on top her mother…. kids on top? a domestic scene indeed… © adam cope
Caricature
‘Grumpy‘Pencil© The Artist. Drawing quickly moving figures involves a certain element of caricature. Because you only have a limited amount of time, you must select & hone-in on the essentials of the pose, which not only means portions etc. but the meaning of the pose. What the model is doing & what he is feeling.…
Selling & Making Art on the Streets
‘Chez Caty’ aquarelle 24 x 32 cm © adam cope Clowns & fire-jugglers aren’t the only ‘artistes de la rue’ in tourist hot-spot Sarlat working the summer crowds. There’s other kinds of artists who ‘faire le trottoir’ (work the pavements), painters who paint on the streets & try to sell on the streets. Hoping…
Croquis de la Foule à Sarlat
Some sketches ‘sur la vif’ of the crowds on holiday at Sarlat, starting with Françoise le Guide.Many thanks to Niels at My Camera World for helping me learn about photographing drawings. Look what a good job he kindly did on this one : AFTER Niels’ Retouching: BEFORE RETOUCHING: A guide all dressed up… …
Rembrandt’s Drawings of Children – Anticipation & Action
Rembrandt’s Drawings of Children These two drawings remind me of some of the storyboard sketches of Walt Disney’s ‘Nine Old Men’ period. The action & drama is supremely rendered with economy of means, a sure sign of mastery. Here’s what Wiki has to say about one of the ’12 Basic…
Rembrandt’s Gesture Drawing
Rembrandt’s Gesture Drawing Rembrandt Harmensz von Rijn (1606-1669) Zwei Frauen bringen einem Kind das Laufen bei, um 1640 Kreide auf Papier British Museum, London, photo wiki Gesture_Drawing = http://www.wikihow.com/Practice-Gesture-Drawing Both these articles are great places to start reading about gesture drawing. Nicolades ‘The Natural way of Drawing’ is the best. I would add that because…
Gestural Drawing of a Musician
‘Stefan’ pencil & ink 32 x 24 cm © Adam Cope My camera & old computer refuse to take properly exposed photos of graphite pencil on white paper. The fine silver tones of graphite along with the delicate yellow wash make sthis virtually impossibl eto phjoto well Fiddley dee and fiddley dumb over the hills…
