Drawings For Ngaire

[Scott Bartner]

Dear Forum Members:

Ngaire Winwood of Queensland, Australia is making a supreme effort to become an artist, with very limited resources. What she needs now are good reproductions of old/living master drawings so that she may copy them and become proficient in drawing the human figure.

Perhaps those interested could post a drawing on this thread by an old/living master, or perhaps an original drawing, you feel would be beneficial for her to study. This way she could see initially what a solid drawing looks like. If you could also include a link to the high resolution version of your drawing, I could at some point print it off and send it to her once I had formed a little drawing collection.

I was looking around the ARC site and found this charming drawing by Valeri Meek. The subject

[Marvin Mattelson]

This is a drawing that everyone should consider copying. Spectacular!

[Allan Rahbek]

I will suggest to study the etchings by Anders Zorn, the famous Swedish painter and Sargent's contemporary and equal.

Zorn traveled much and spend time in America where he painted several portraits. In Venice, he painted Isabella Steward Gardner (Boston Museum).

Zorn lived and loved his Swedish country life and found many of his best motifs there. I believe that Morgan Weistling would agree on that.

Take a look at: www.zorn.se

Allan

[Linda Brandon]

Scott, what about the Charles Bargue "Drawing Course" book, available from the Dahesh Museum in New York City?

It would be easy for me to run off some copies of the pages at the local copy shop, roll them up in a tube and send them off to Ngaire. (Ngaire, privately email me your address if you're interested.)

Here's a sample:

Self Portrait by Andrea del Sarto

[Ngaire Winwood]

Thank you Scott for your generosity and kind gesture to help in my training. It is no longer hard to know where to start into the world of portraiture. Thanks for logging on to the Forum.

Marvin, I agree that this drawing and others like it could have a section of its own in this Forum for any artist to use in their development and training.

Allan, thank you for the info, I will endeavour to do some more research.

Linda, Thank you for your generosity, kindness and being true to your word.

It is a pleasure to get to know you all and a big Thank you all for being so thoughtful to a student artist, this humbles me to know that in this mixed up world that there is kindness, compassion and generosity that makes each one of you one of the special people. Thank you all for logging on.

[Claudemir Bonfim]

Hope these ones will be useful!

[Allan Rahbek]

Hi Bonfim,

These look familiar, are they etchings by the Danish painter Carl Bloch ?

Allan

[Claudemir Bonfim]

Hi Allan,

Yes, they are. I have a collection of his drawings, etchings and paintings!

[Ngaire Winwood]

They are great Claudemir, thanks.

I am starting to realise that to develop and fine tune technical skills, one has to have a very large bookcase in which inspiration and techniques can be learned from. You are very fortunate to have these at home with you. I just hope my printer will respect the quality also.

[Claudemir Bonfim]

I have a collection of Prints of Carl Bloch. They are available on ebay!
Another option is to take the jpeg images and develop them as if you were going to develop any other photograph.
If you want I can email you some of them with more pixels!