Journals categorized as "Drawing Technique"



Snow

Published on: 15 February, 2016


The Page

The white page is snow. Planning preserves it. I compose the sheet with pencil, then pre-dampen sections with clear water. Then I paint watercolor into the wet. 

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Views of the World

Published on: 7 June, 2010

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Views of the World For many years I've kept framed prints by Andreus Cellarius hanging at either side of my studio window. The...

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Drawing into Painting / Painting into Drawing

Published on: 13 April, 2010

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(Above) Photograph of drawing table with Landscape in Graphite II (work in progress) 5 x 12', graphite on Fabriano paper. This drawing has been executed in pencil and powdered gr...

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Memory

Published on: 27 September, 2009

Beach Walk, Part 1; Book 132 Pages 58 and 59.

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Beach Walk, Part 2; Book 132 Pages 60 and 61.

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During my summer retrea...

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Dreams and Images

Published on: 14 May, 2009

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(above) Charles Ritchie, Astronomical Chart, Bowl, and Candles, (work in progress), watercolor and graphite on Fabriano paper, 4 x 6″

Dreams and Images

I don’t hav...

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A Mix

Published on: 13 March, 2009

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A Hunt in the Forest

Published on: 22 February, 2009

A Hunt in the Forest

A few years ago I sifted through family photograph...

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Graphite

Published on: 10 January, 2009

Photograph of drawing table on 10 January 2009 with Spring Twilight (above) and Night with O...

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More Scrubbing

Published on: 21 December, 2008

Charles Ritchi...

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Scrubbing

Published on: 13 December, 2008

Photograph of Charles Ritchie working by Matthew Gay.

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Passage

Published on: 28 November, 2008

Charles Ritchie, Copy after

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Day Dreams

Published on: 1 November, 2008

Self-Portrai...

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New Print Project Part 6

Published on: 14 September, 2008

Photograph of studio table with plate 1 for the...

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Pictures at an Exhibition

Published on: 5 September, 2008

Photograph of the installation of the exhibition From the Inside Lo...

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The Bend

Published on: 17 August, 2008

The Bend, 1984, watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on Fabriano paper, 3 5/...

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Risk: Turning Pages, Part 2

Published on: 13 August, 2008

Charl...

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Works in Progress

Published on: 29 June, 2008

Works in Progress

As I keep so many projects going at one time, I thought it might be re...

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A Fragment

Published on: 23 June, 2008

A Fragment

I was digging through my ...

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New Print Project: Part 4

Published on: 19 May, 2008

New Print Project: Part 4

Our first task when I arrived at Center Street Studio was to transfer my drawings with inscriptions photographically to film positives. Here Jim Stroud trims one of the f...

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New Print Project: Part 3

Published on: 11 May, 2008

Photograph of project models for Accordion Fold Prin...

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Colors of Black

Published on: 4 May, 2008

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Study from Book 130, Self-Portrait with Planets and Gi...

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Millet's Falling Star

Published on: 27 April, 2008

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Charles Ritchie, Study after Starry Ni...

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The Star Magnolia

Published on: 12 April, 2008

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Charles Ritchie, two Polaroid photographs of a

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New Print Project: Part 1

Published on: 24 March, 2008

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(above) Photograph of the artist’s drawing and writing on clear Mylar featuring a pen and ink study after

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Antares Rising: Drawing Seasons

Published on: 23 February, 2008

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Self-Portrait with Night XI: Graphite, first...

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Thursday Night Figure Drawing

Published on: 27 January, 2008

 

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Two Figures, 2007, graphite on wove paper in ring-bound sketchboo...

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J.M.W. Turner: Yellow/Red/Blue

Published on: 13 January, 2008

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(above) Second and final state. Copy after J.M.W. Turner from a reproduction of the watercolor Th...

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Seurat Drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Published on: 21 December, 2007

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I’ve always enjoyed drawing in f...

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