After a week at the cottage (where blogging is verboten) we are back in business with this weeks offering, Macbeth and the witches. It is a theme we’ve covered here before, but as we just returned from seeing the play at the Stratford Festival Theatre, I feel it’s time to revisit. We have dug into … More Macbeth and the Witches
We’re in the full heat of summer now, so let’s get naked in the garden with the Bible’s first couple! In this Planet People poster, Eve holds out the forbidden fruit for Adam to sample. This gives them knowledge of good and evil, but causes them to be banished from paradise. In this second version … More Adam and Eve Revisited
With drawing you are not so much making a picture of something as a camera does, but rather you are describing a three dimensional object as it exists in space. The problem lies in having only the two dimensions of the paper to work with. The solution is to make marks that to the eye exist in space, … More Drawing
When I first walked into the art school I attended I admit it was shocking to see a naked person sitting on an elevated surface for all to observe but one soon learns that knowledge of the human figure is essential for painting or sculpture. I had forgotten that initial reticence I myself had in … More The Nude
St. George, slayer of dragons and freer of damsels, somehow mixed up in my mind with Perseus and Andromeda. In this Planet People poster a bucking bronco helps dispatch the dragon. I do think I nailed it with this charcoal drawing . It’s full of bold expressive marks and dramatic action, and the … More St. George and the Dragon
Call me a fool but this week we are featuring images of jesters. The first is a drawing in charcoal on a children’s theme. The second is a painting that includes a fortune-teller. I like the mood and all of the diagonals in this composition. Lastly a painting of a jester and his king. … More Jesters
As an artistic being, I’ve got to admire a guy who can smite a Philistine and get away with it, and our David here is certainly one of the originals. The giant Goliath is felled by young David’s well-aimed slingshot. A vulnerable but confident David readies for the kill. A defeated Goliath stumbles … More David and Goliath
Charm and seduction vs.war and destruction; opposites inspire art. In black and white, naked Venus easily disarms uptight Mars. In colour Mars reins in his chariot on a cliff as a radiant Venus washes ashore. I see conflict ahead! May you overcome! Barry.
In the bible, Salome dances before King Herod, pleasing him so much that he promises her anything in return. She asks that the head of John the Baptist be brought to her on a charger. Salome Dancing (1987). Here is a quick charcoal sketch with rough abstract marks that I think still manages to set … More Salome Dancing
I call this picture Poor Yorick because that’s whose skull Hamlet is holding as he speaks. I love Shakespeare and here is my low budget version of “the Danish play “. I hope the director at bottom can pull it off, and that our swooning Ophelia doesn’t catch a cold. Speaking of Ophelia, I … More Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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