Drawing

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Quote card — Ingres said: 'Drawing is three-fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over the door of my atelier, I would write: School of Drawing... and I'm certain that I would create painters.'
Joseph-Benoît Suvée's The Invention of the Art of Drawing: the Corinthian maid traces her lover's lamplit shadow on the wall as he gazes up at her Page from Rodin's conversations on art: asked if art is a kind of religion, he answers that its first commandment is to model well an arm, a torso, or a thigh Alone on a bench in a crimson museum hall, hood up, notebook in hand, before Rubens' vast Martyrdom of Saint Livinus From behind: drawing on a stone bench by a green pond, sketchbook open on crossed legs, locs down the back, trees doubled in the water Standing at the lit vitrines of Degas bronzes — dancers mid-leap on their plinths — sketchbook raised, silhouetted in the amber museum light Sitting small in red under a magnolia in full bloom at the pond's edge, drawing among the fallen petals

Contents

  1. software
  2. Links
    1. other people's sketchbooks
    2. SightSize
  3. [::DrawingDatabases]

software

see also: ComputerAssistedDrawing, RealTime
[::RealtimeDrawing]

other people's sketchbooks

LINKS to ARTIST SKETCHBOOKS online
Goya's Italian Sketchbook

SightSize

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atelier_Method

[::DrawingDatabases]

(often institutional)
Art Institute of Chicago
Accademia Carrara, Ambrosiana, Brera, Poldi Pezzoli, and other Lombard Collections
Ambrosiana, Biblioteca
Getty Museum
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
Flemish Art Collections – Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, the Groeninge Museum Bruges and the Museum of Fine Arts Ghent

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Drawing on a torn, burn-edged scrap: a pencil eye weeping a lattice of small blue teardrops, with the words something I don't trust written along the lid