#0584 Hand
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I am going to a live drawing group tomorrow. I’ve never done that before and spent a bit of time warming up today. Trying pens, chalk etc. And just looking at people in the café & sketching live. I’m posting them.
Pablo Picasso
#0582 Pablo Picasso
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Re-did the last one – I like this bolder version.
Pablo Picasso
#0581 Pablo Picasso
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More about Picasso to write up too. Saw the video also about a month ago & began this then. Travel plans slowed me down.
David Hockney
#0580 David Hockney
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I did this a month ago & did not post it, but now I have.
Philip Guston Contradictions
I began to make a post about my visit to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, but lost it half way through for some reason. But just one artist will do for now. Philip Guston.
Amy introduced me to him. I am intrigued by the man, his place in the abstract expressionist world. When I walked up the stairs at the museum today there was a Guston, much more impressive than the web stuff!
The one I really liked, and the first painting that really drew me today was one called The Tormentors:
Move
#0579 Move!
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11″ x 8.5″ image on 13″ x 19″ archival matte paper. I think this one will look good in the 1.2 meter wide canvas format.
I had a good time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – I went three times during the day & took sketch breaks. So there may be a little bit of derivation going on. Obliquely. Looking at great art all day I get a real sense of what inspires me to create and it is the kinesthetic, large, and the thoughtfully bold. I’ll write up a bit more from my visit in the next post.
Collision
#0578 Collision
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11″ x 8.5″ image on 13″ x 19″ archival matte paper.
Reds
#0577 Reds
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I saw the blue monochrome today…
Glow
#0576 Glow
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I have linked this in with my sketchblog category because this is what the day here in San Francisco has done to me. This is my report on the day!
Pete’s Café
#0575 Pete’s Café
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In Pete’s Café near the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – the rest of the day the art gallery was the focus. I am now in the Café Museo posting up some sketches I did after being inspired in the museum.
These line sketches are fun, but I like my kinaesthetic big bold abstracts. I sketch them here on this little screen but imagine myself in some rural studio with unlimited real materials. But I am ahead of myself…