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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Drawing Hands: The Back of the Wrist
These drawing tutorials seem to wind up using a lot of space. So I’m going to try something a little different. Here’s a new tutorial, on drawing the wrist. If you click on the link or the image, you should … Continue reading
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Details of sketches for Three Graces triptych
Here are some details of the sketches for the Three Graces triptych (click on images for slideshow — probably after page finishes loading):
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Blog Update: Galleries, Drawing Tutorials Archive
I have added some things to this blog — two new pages. First, there is now a Galleries page, with gallery/slideshow/carousel-type widgets. Galleries are in the sidebar, too. Second, there is a Figure Drawing Tutorials page, where I am going … Continue reading
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Tagged anatomy, art, artistic, Beauty, drawing, figurative, figure, hands, how to draw, human, nouveau, nude, pen and ink, pencil, watercolor
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New Work: Three Graces Triptych: Three Sketches
In between work on tutorials, and work for my patient (?) clients, I’ve been working on sketches for a triptych: three pen-ink-and-watercolor paintings of the Three Graces. I got a little ahead of myself with The Three Graces: Grace, and … Continue reading
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Artistic Anatomy of the Arm, Part I: Outer Arm
The arm is an astonishing contraption. In the first place, the whole assembly of arm and shoulder floats in a matrix of muscle and ligament, and there is just one real skeletal joint connecting it to the rest of the … Continue reading
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Lines Drawn With Ink Are Wonderful
I had to spend two weeks up on the roof at the beginning of the month, and then I was two weeks behind with my current free-lance job, and had to put in a couple of weeks of long work … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Beauty, female, figure, hair, imagination, imaginative, nouveau, pen and ink, Three Graces
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Three Graces Triptych: Sketch for “Grace”
Fall mists here in the Willamette Valley. Now and then, all through this season, I hear the geese overhead. I’ve been able to return to work on a Three Graces triptych. This is the initial pencil work on “Grace”: All … Continue reading
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How a Piece Begins
How does one of my paintings take shape? I’m a fanatic for detail, but not at the beginning. The first thing I do is usually a little thumbnail sketch, very simple. It might not even be clear to someone else … Continue reading
Posted in Art, drawing, how to draw the figure, Pen and ink, Pen and ink and watercolor, pencil, sketch
Tagged art, Beauty, dance, drawing, grace, hair, how to draw, imagination, imaginative, movement, pencil, sketch, Three Graces, walking, watercolor
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New Work: “Evening Cup”
I wanted to do more things like Morning Cup and Morning Cup II, but different. Hence this piece, in progress, tentatively titled Evening Cup. As you can see, I was going to call it Evening Glass, but that looks too … Continue reading
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The Three Graces: Another Tack
Here’s a sketch, playing around with ideas for a three-painting series, the Three Graces — Beauty, Grace, Charm — as stand-alone images — not dancing together. This would be Beauty: – Or it could just as well be Grace, or … Continue reading
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