I used to think drawing was something I had to learn so that I could to get to painting. Lately I’ve grown to enjoy drawing for its own expressive abilities. Drawing is a spontaneous and immediate art. It is a direct record of the movement of the artist’s hand, a record of movement in time. Drawing can be quick, agile, and impulsive, but as a drawing progresses, the marks accumulate into something less movable.
Sketched quickly on subways and other New York spaces, these drawings by Gregory Muenzen have in them a quality I often see in blind contour line drawings, in which the hand is encouraged to follow a line made by the eye as it moves across the detailed crevices of a subject, and the artist is “blind” by not looking at their paper while the pencil is in motion. I often find these drawings have in them a special infusion of interest. Placement and proportion is secondary to curiosity. The pencil records the intimate act of looking.
I’ve been painting (yippee!), so there was a pause in the V. Notes for a few days, but I didn’t want another day to go by without putting another artist in your inbox. Here he is: Hurvin Anderson. Anderson is a British-Jamaican artist, and another one of Carlos San Millan’s favorites. You may have noticed …
After the election I experienced a reality shift. It was something I found neither productive nor pleasant, but it happened. I’m not sure if it affected my pictures, or if it would have affected them if I was painting them, but I wasn’t. What it did effect was how I viewed the the school. While a …
“Sketchbooks are a place for experimentation, self reflection, technical practice, and developing an artistic identity,” says Keith Pfeiffer, official sketchbook class instructor. (To be cheeky, we called it Advanced Doodling.) I asked Keith what his favorite sketchbook was. Here is what he said: “My favorite sketchbook is Moleskine sketchbook 9×12. The paper is smooth enough for clean …
I asked Fran O’Neill from the New York Studio School to talk about her upcoming workshop “To Transcribe” and the benefits of transcribing masterworks. She offered a beautiful and inspiring response. Fran O’Neill’s 2 day workshop “To Transcribe” is coming to the Seattle Artist League October 24, 2020. Click here to learn more. “To Transcribe” …
Gregory Muenzen
I used to think drawing was something I had to learn so that I could to get to painting. Lately I’ve grown to enjoy drawing for its own expressive abilities. Drawing is a spontaneous and immediate art. It is a direct record of the movement of the artist’s hand, a record of movement in time. Drawing can be quick, agile, and impulsive, but as a drawing progresses, the marks accumulate into something less movable.
Sketched quickly on subways and other New York spaces, these drawings by Gregory Muenzen have in them a quality I often see in blind contour line drawings, in which the hand is encouraged to follow a line made by the eye as it moves across the detailed crevices of a subject, and the artist is “blind” by not looking at their paper while the pencil is in motion. I often find these drawings have in them a special infusion of interest. Placement and proportion is secondary to curiosity. The pencil records the intimate act of looking.
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