Drawings For Ngaire
 

Dear Forum Members:

Ngaire Winwood of Queensland, Australia is making a supreme effort to become an artist, with very limited resources. What she needs now are good reproductions of old/living master drawings so that she may copy them and become proficient in drawing the human figure.

Perhaps those interested could post a drawing on this thread by an old/living master, or perhaps an original drawing, you feel would be beneficial for her to study. This way she could see initially what a solid drawing looks like. If you could also include a link to the high resolution version of your drawing, I could at some point print it off and send it to her once I had formed a little drawing collection.

I was looking around the ARC site and found this charming drawing by Valeri Meek. The subject

This is a drawing that everyone should consider copying. Spectacular!

I will suggest to study the etchings by Anders Zorn, the famous Swedish painter and Sargent's contemporary and equal.

Zorn traveled much and spend time in America where he painted several portraits. In Venice, he painted Isabella Steward Gardner (Boston Museum).

Zorn lived and loved his Swedish country life and found many of his best motifs there. I believe that Morgan Weistling would agree on that.

Take a look at: www.zorn.se

Allan

Scott, what about the Charles Bargue "Drawing Course" book, available from the Dahesh Museum in New York City?

It would be easy for me to run off some copies of the pages at the local copy shop, roll them up in a tube and send them off to Ngaire. (Ngaire, privately email me your address if you're interested.)

Here's a sample:

Self Portrait by Andrea del Sarto

Thank you Scott for your generosity and kind gesture to help in my training. It is no longer hard to know where to start into the world of portraiture. Thanks for logging on to the Forum.

Marvin, I agree that this drawing and others like it could have a section of its own in this Forum for any artist to use in their development and training.

Allan, thank you for the info, I will endeavour to do some more research.

Linda, Thank you for your generosity, kindness and being true to your word.

It is a pleasure to get to know you all and a big Thank you all for being so thoughtful to a student artist, this humbles me to know that in this mixed up world that there is kindness, compassion and generosity that makes each one of you one of the special people. Thank you all for logging on.

Carl Bloch.
 

:) Hope these ones will be useful!

Hi Bonfim,

These look familiar, are they etchings by the Danish painter Carl Bloch ?

Allan

Hi Allan,

Yes, they are. I have a collection of his drawings, etchings and paintings!

They are great Claudemir, thanks.

I am starting to realise that to develop and fine tune technical skills, one has to have a very large bookcase in which inspiration and techniques can be learned from. You are very fortunate to have these at home with you. I just hope my printer will respect the quality also.

Prints!
 

I have a collection of Prints of Carl Bloch. They are available on ebay!
Another option is to take the jpeg images and develop them as if you were going to develop any other photograph.
If you want I can email you some of them with more pixels!

Claudemir, your offer to email them is appreciated, I am afraid my old equipment still won't do them any justice but at least I can see enough detail to get techniques clearer.

I would also like to find copies of blocking in examples for paintings by any of the masters. I heard recently that there was a Great Draughtsman Series by Henry Bonnier on Rembrandt and others, I think it was Pall Mall Press. The book is out of print. If anyone has this book, I wonder if they could place a few of these onto this forum. Apparently they have their own masterful and unique qualities the same as drawing has.

I have a virtual book called " Creative Illustration" by Andrew Loomis, it contains a page about "blocking", but the size of the book is of about 30 megabytes, so if you want I can email you the specific page. Or somebody can help me to add a link in my website so anyone will be able to download it, I have also the titles Figure Drawing, Fun with a Pencil and Drawing Heads and Hands, all of them by Andrew Loomis, I don

Thanks again Cynthia and all on this great forum.

Here is my first ever study, I have chosen Lola by Valerie Meek as my first that was posted here on this thread by Scott.

White paper is too stark to work these exercises with so from now on I will use tinted paper. This exercise was challenging to say the least but I hope I am nearly there with it. Any suggestions?

Sorry, about the tones but my scanner did not do justice to her cheek bone. In my original you can't see that darker tone.

Here is Lola again, I try to re-scan it a little clearer.

Here's a link to Andrew Loomis' "Creative Illustration" on-line:

http://www.fineart.sk/index.php?cat=13

Thanks George,

I burned a CD and sent it to Ngaire. But if anyone desires, I've got all of Loomis' books in my pc.