I love preparatory drawings as studies for paintings. I love seeing them. I love making them. I once was commissioned for a set of murals where I made over two hundred prep drawings of the figures.
The figure above is a beautiful prep drawing by Gilbert White for his fresco at the Agriculture Building in Washington DC in the 1920s.
i agree! sometimes the studies are more enjoyable than the finished paintings too! Leighton and Draper are 2 that come to mind that did incredible prep drawings, masterpieces in their own right.
Very beautiful. There is a part of me that thinks, there is nothing more to say once you have taken a drawing this far. I'm sure the mural is fabulous but the drawing seems to say it all - for me anyway.
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My name is Thom Buchanan.
I'm an artist and photographer.
People are my favorite subjects to portray in art and photos. My wife (and studio partner) has called that my 'people skills', as I've been passionately creating portrait studies for many years.
I refer to myself as a pictorialist, a combination of image-making and journalist. Images are my life.
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i agree! sometimes the studies are more enjoyable than the finished paintings too! Leighton and Draper are 2 that come to mind that did incredible prep drawings, masterpieces in their own right.
200 though, yikes!!!
All 200 drawings had historical details and I had to present them to and have them approved by professors at UCLA. Talk about yikes.
Very beautiful. There is a part of me that thinks, there is nothing more to say once you have taken a drawing this far. I'm sure the mural is fabulous but the drawing seems to say it all - for me anyway.
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