Saturday, July 17, 2010
"Blueberries and Yogurt"
4:30pm


This morning's breakfast of blueberries and yogurt!
(Did for Illustration Friday theme of "Breakfast", click for larger view.)

This was the breakfast that almost wasn't. Was it the terrible heat making me woozy? Last Thursday night, I dropped the container with the blueberries all over the floor. I managed to salvage a few, which I carefully washed. The rest flew and rolled everywhere, even onto the adjacent living room carpet. I sadly gathered them all into the dustpan and dumped them. I would have liked to have a second such meal, but at least we had one berry yummy breakfast.

(Julia held her bowl in her hands, thus it wasn't on the table! And those are vitamins in the small dishes.)

Sunday, July 18, 2010 A
"Intuitive Drawing - Vaguely Medieval, Vaguely French"
8:12am


Vaguely medieval, vaguely French, was he inspired by the DVD 'Civilization' program featuring Charlemagne?

Sunday, July 18, 2010 B
"Drawing - Kenneth Clark "
9:05pm


We've watched five episodes of the Civilization series. We both love the way each art piece is featured, as the movie camera moves over and around it slowly, so that we can really examine it. "It was Attenborough who prompted the title, but due to time constraints the series only covered Western Civilisation. Clark didn't 'suppose that anyone could be so obtuse as to think I had forgotten about the great civilisations of the pre-Christian era and the east', though the title continued to worry him," as Wikipedia informs us. Time constraints, indeed, for Clark is filmed all over the world, to show us Western civilization's greatest art treasures. His covering of the medieval period has filled in some of the weaker parts of my art history education.

After the last episode we watched, I grew curious to learn a little more about him. No wonder I find myself in sympatico with him, for he was a "self-described 'hero-worshipper'" and "proved to be an ardent pro-individualist" and "Humanist". I share, too, "his distaste for much of modern art and Post-Modernist thought".

I am much amused by his declaration, "The great artist takes what he needs."

He spoke of how all great artists 'steal' from other artists, but combine all the 'stolen' elements into a unique synthesis, unlike what came before.

So I figure I have his blessing on my efforts regarding a photo of him from 1937, to use it to draw from!

Tuesday, July 20, 2010
"Quote by Kenneth Clark "
6:28am


"Energy is eternal delight; and from the earliest times human beings have tried to imprison it in some durable hieroglyphic. It is perhaps the first of all the subjects of art". Kenneth Clark

Wednesday, July 21, 2010
"Drawing of Alexander Calder"
9:29pm


From a tiny 362x450 pixel photo of Calder taken in 1927
On 14x17 paper, ink pen, cropped to 13 x 16 in original

I was seeking drawing inspiration, and thought I might find it by looking through Wikipedia lists. I noted that July 22nd is Calder's birthday. He would have been 112 if he hadn't passed in 1976, one day after my eighteenth birthday.

In keeping with the linear quality of much of his artwork, I aimed for a linear approach to the drawing.

Thursday, July 22, 2010
"Drawing - Slightly Glum"
7:08pm

Saturday, July 24, 2010 A
"Double"
5:47am


An intuitive exploration of the Friday illo theme "Double"

Although this was an intuitive exploration of the theme, no doubt there were a few subconscious influences. In particular, see the bowl with feet at the Metropolitan Museum:

      
Bowl with Human Feet,
Egyptian, Predynastic, Late Naqada l–Naqada II; Red polished ware, ca. 3750–3550 BCE
Pottery; H. 9.8 cm (3 7/8 in.); diam 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.)
Rogers Fund, 1910, MMA 10.176.113

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