Previously I posted four masterwork studies drawn by Fran O’Neill and I challenged you to identify them. I don’t have a good memory for names, but I did recognize the works in a general way, and I was impressed when you named all but one. I admit I didn’t recognize the landscape but the scene did look familiar.
I asked Fran for clues about the landscape:
“Orvieto is a hillside walled town perched in the Umbrian countryside. The Duomo there has incredible Signorelli frescoes, that apparently Michelangelo went to look at before starting the Sistine Chapel. NYSS used to host a summer program from there. I was lucky enough to be the administrator 2, maybe 3 times. The drawing was me taking a break from the class, sitting on the wall and drawing the view.” – Fran O’Neill
So… evidently the place was art historic but the drawing wasn’t a masterwork study, it was an original O’Neill circa 2005. The drawing had been mistakenly grouped in with her masterwork studies on Instagram, so I mistakenly put it in the contest. There was no masterwork, other than the original O’Neill itself.
Tomorrow’s post: Find out who is buried in Grant’s tomb!
Hotel La Badia as viewed from Orvieto
Fran O’Neill’s study from the wall of Orvieto c. 2005
Fran O’Neill’s Landscapes class starts in 4 days! Can’t do Tuesday afternoons? You can watch recordings of the class on your own time, and we’ll schedule you for 1:1 feedback directly with the instructor. Click here to learn more.
San Brizio Chapel in Orvieto Cathedral
San Brizio Chapel in Orvieto Cathedral
“The Duomo [in Orvieto] has incredible Signorelli frescoes, that apparently Michelangelo went to look at before starting the Sistine Chapel.” – Fran O’Neill
Signorelli’s frescoes of the apocalypse were inspirations for Michelangelo’s Last Judgment.
Signorelli painted gnashing of teeth and nasty awful tortury scenes of hell and heck and purgatory all over up and down that gosh darned ceiling. Click here to learn about the frescoes that inspired Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.
It’s time for me to introduce new experiments into my paintings. I’m taking a look back at surfaces, and how to alter the surface to have a different effect on my final painting. How can I get more finely tuned? How can I get more playful? How can I get more volume or color so my …
Before all those orange artworks, I was posting about Figure in Interior; the most unusual art class I’ve ever been a part of. I talked about Cezanne, and how making small marks distributed around the page (thank you to Fran O’Neill) can be a way to integrate time and change within a drawing. My premise …
The Chicken Coop Challenge 10 teams collaborated for this blind drawing challenge. Each team member emailed me their drawings without their team mates seeing what they drew, and I assembled them. Evidently, no one can be serious. Winning team below. And the winning team is… 2 HILLS! Brad Wilder drew the roof, Lucy Garnett drew …
Well, this is embarrassing…
Previously I posted four masterwork studies drawn by Fran O’Neill and I challenged you to identify them. I don’t have a good memory for names, but I did recognize the works in a general way, and I was impressed when you named all but one. I admit I didn’t recognize the landscape but the scene did look familiar.
I asked Fran for clues about the landscape:
“Orvieto is a hillside walled town perched in the Umbrian countryside. The Duomo there has incredible Signorelli frescoes, that apparently Michelangelo went to look at before starting the Sistine Chapel. NYSS used to host a summer program from there. I was lucky enough to be the administrator 2, maybe 3 times. The drawing was me taking a break from the class, sitting on the wall and drawing the view.” – Fran O’Neill
So… evidently the place was art historic but the drawing wasn’t a masterwork study, it was an original O’Neill circa 2005. The drawing had been mistakenly grouped in with her masterwork studies on Instagram, so I mistakenly put it in the contest. There was no masterwork, other than the original O’Neill itself.
Tomorrow’s post: Find out who is buried in Grant’s tomb!
Fran O’Neill’s Landscapes class starts in 4 days! Can’t do Tuesday afternoons? You can watch recordings of the class on your own time, and we’ll schedule you for 1:1 feedback directly with the instructor. Click here to learn more.
San Brizio Chapel in Orvieto Cathedral
“The Duomo [in Orvieto] has incredible Signorelli frescoes, that apparently Michelangelo went to look at before starting the Sistine Chapel.” – Fran O’Neill
Signorelli painted gnashing of teeth and nasty awful tortury scenes of hell and heck and purgatory all over up and down that gosh darned ceiling. Click here to learn about the frescoes that inspired Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.
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