A pencil (HB) drawing from a LOC photograph.

Two more drawings from Drawing in Ink class.

The first, a copy of a van Gogh. The idea here is to vary line weight, detailing, and other aspects to create the impression of depth.

This one is a copy of a Ruisdael. This was my very first attempt to use wash (diluted ink applied with brushes). I had a very hard time with this, particularly since I had difficulty getting the dilutions the way I needed them.

Today was my first day of my Drawing in Ink class at Gage. I made two drawings.

The first is a copy of a drawing by Raphael of Michelangelo's David.

The second is a rubber ducky, drawn from "life".

(Click the drawings for larger versions at Flickr.)

I think I'm off to a good start.

A pencil sketch of Senator William Stone (1848-1918), from a photograph at the LOC.

More pencil work, of photographs from the Library of Congress.

William Whittemore (a rather cartoonish warmup)

Florence Macbeth (as often happens with me, the eyes are overworked and too dark, but I like the way the nose looks, even if the whole face is a bit skewed)

Back on that pencil horse. Two drawings of men who died young in 1916 from photographs from the Library of Congress.

Early race car driver Bob Burman



Aeronautical pioneer Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais

A pencil sketch of big time lawyer W. Morgan Shuster (1877-1960). From a LOC photograph.

A pencil sketch of Infanta Beatriz of Spain, from a LOC photograph.

Strangely, I added at least ten years to her age: she's a young child in the photo, but my sketch makes her look at least a teenager. Odd.

A pencil sketch of J. N. Callahan from a Library of Congress photograph.

Pencil sketch of Ned Coy from a John Grabill photo from 1888.