Jonathan Day
Mad about drawing. Middle-aged, tall, not yet too fat. Home: the Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA. Earned Ph.D. in Physics, OSU, 2008; currently making living as artist. Go figure.
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Monthly Archives: December 2011
Drawing Hands: Fingers Curled
I’m easing back into doing figure-drawing tutorials, after recovering from Christmas. This is the beginning of probably several new tutorials on hand gestures. This one will mean more to you, if you have had a look at earlier tutorials on … Continue reading
Posted in Art, How to draw hands, how to draw the figure
Tagged anatomy, art, artistic, Beauty, drawing, figurative, figure, finger, hands, how to draw, human, tutorial
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Morning Cup III: Block print with watercolor
I took extra pains with this one, and am glad I did. This is an artist’s proof; I am thinking that, before I do a full edition, I want to add some grass blades at the bottom, to fill in … Continue reading
Posted in Art, block print and watercolor
Tagged art, Beauty, block print, celebration, coffee, female, figurative, figure, hair, imagination, imaginative, linocut, linoleum, nouveau
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Progress With Block Printing On An Etching Press
I’ve managed to work through some of the difficulties I was having with doing linoleum block prints with an etching press. I hope to go into some more detail about all that in a subsequent post. For now, I want … Continue reading
Posted in Art, block print and watercolor
Tagged art, Beauty, block print, celebration, coffee, female, figurative, figure, hair, linocut, linoleum
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Linoleum Block for “Visitor”
Here’s a shot of the linoleum block for the print Visitor. It’s inked and ready to print. I’ve been having a lot of difficulty getting it to print right on watercolor paper, but I may have found the solution. I … Continue reading
Posted in Art, block print and watercolor
Tagged art, Beauty, block print, celebration, female, figurative, figure, hair, human, imagination, imaginative, linocut, linoleum, nouveau
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New Work: Linocut
This is an artist’s proof of the current piece, titled “Visitors,” or “Spring Song,” or “My Friend Fred the Finch,” or something or other. I got some fresh, new relief inks from Dan Smith today, and I want to tell … Continue reading
Posted in Art, block print and watercolor
Tagged art, Beauty, celebration, female, figurative, figure, imagination, imaginative, linocut, nouveau, watercolor
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New work: “Free Spirits”
Here’s another linoleum-block-print cum watercolors, flamboyantly titled Free Spirits. As before, the block is inked, the paper is laid on it very gently, and then the print is pulled using an etching press. The paper is stretched by moistening, taping … Continue reading
Posted in Art, block print and watercolor
Tagged art, Beauty, block print, celebration, dance, female, figurative, figure, grace, imagination, imaginative, linocut, linoleum, nouveau, watercolor
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Friends: An Experiment
I’m trying something new here. These two pieces started with carving a linoleum block, as though I were going to do a regular linocut. I then inked the block with Daniel Smith Venetian Red relief ink, put a sheet of … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Beauty, celebration, female, figure, grace, hair, imagination, imaginative, linocut, linoleum block print, nouveau, watercolor
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