Fritz Perls, Gestaly Psychology Video

This is amazing.

Drawing 2 out of the 44

drawing 2 out of the 44.

"Man in a bag" 8x10" on Strathmore 400 series drawing paper medium, 80lbs, which is basically light drawing paper with a little bit of tooth. I am drawing with a Faber Castell "Perfect Pencil" which I received as a gift for my birthday from Laurie.

I am drawing on a little drawing platform purchased from Ikea for maybe 11 dollars. It raises the drawing on an angle so that it is more comfortable to draw, and you won't get the distortion that happens when drawing on a flat surface.

For these drawings I am trusting my unconscious mind, and not planning anything except that they will fit on the paper, and probably be a "head/face." Once the basic head emerges, then I am "polishing" it by creating very gentle gradations by being very careful and gentle when shading.

Oil Painting, Help me I.D. the artist?

old man painting, originally uploaded by Gild Inc..

I saw this painting on Flickr, the photo was taken in 2006 at the SCOPE fair in NYC. Does anyone know who painted it?

Drawings, New Stuff, Bill Donovan

This is a doodle I made last week, and I got sort of excited about the cartoon face on the lower right. So I made this drawing, where I basically was incredibly gentle with a pencil on drawing paper.

This is way more polished than my other cartoons. I am going for "polished" for the next 44 drawings I make.

Bill's Day, Very Nice Day with Very Old Things

Making a watercolor copy of a Vincenzo Campi painting from 1575 of Christ being grabbed by the guy nailing him to the cross, so that he can pound the nail in.
I picked it because, 1. It was an incredible and moving image, and 2. because Campi is really great at setting up a powerfully believable shallow forground and a dramatically framed background. This painting has so much going for it, I just wanted to pick up some "moves."
I mean, it looks like Christ is about to stand up from the surface, crazily well composed image.

Also I cleaned Roman coins, which I have been working on for about 3 years. Everyday I work on them they reveal, in a tiny incremental shift, a little more of the relief sculptures on their surfaces. It is very exciting to have a coin go from a green encrusted blob to a miniature portrait, complete with individual hairs. The faces remind me of Robert Crumb ink drawings.