Play in Progress

Looking at drawings. You can find bigger piles of my own at playinprogress.net/line or on flickr.

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Self-Portrait with Apron and Brushes - Anna Billinska-Bohdanowicz

1883

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“Artist Amy Park Explores The Architecture Of New York City Through Watercolor Paintings” at ignant.de 

Artist’s own website

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Since I first heard of what was then still "The Prince's Drawing School" (at least six, maybe eight years ago) I have wanted to go there. When I go through the courses they offer I feel giddy like a child in a candy shop. What's more, their postgraduate course allows for applications even from people without an art degree, but considers relevant experience. In other words, not just did I want to go there; I actually could. In 2012 I applied and got rejected. In 2013 I applied again, got invited for an interview, but because of seemingly random brain failure I showed up a day too late. In 2014 I was too exhausted and busy with other things to apply again.

This year I applied, and got accepted.

I’ve decided to post my complete application portfolio here, both to celebrate my acceptance and also because in the past I have wished many times I could have a peek at what other people submitted. Not to imitate them, just to develop a feeling for this kind of thing, what to include, what to leave out etc.

This is the first of these postings, showing watercolors from my “Longing for London” series. 2 more postings will follow. If you want to see all of the images right now, you can do so on my fb page.

Good luck to everyone who is in the process of or planning to go to art school!

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playinprogress you might be interested in this? I adore Sophie Campbell’s art. I have three or four of her books here, but not this one.

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Indeed. I have ‘The Abandoned’ here somewhere.

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Vecchio passaggi, 1999, Livio Ceschin. Italian, born in 1962 - Etching and Drypoint -

(Source: simskultur )

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paintings by yvan favre

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Helen A. Loggie（American, 1895–1976）

The King Goblin    1936   Carbon pencil drawing

The King Goblin   1939    etching    

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Yukiko Suto

Roadside Garden 2 2010 Oil, Pencil and plaster on canvas mounted on panel 131 x 194 cm

http://www.takeninagawa.com/past/2010/FieldExhibition/YS_FE_en.html

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General Swiss Society for the whole science on Flickr.

Publication info Neuchatel [Switzerland] :Schweizerische Gesellschaft für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften,1837-1906 Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Tartu in my A5 sketchbook :)

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The Daily Diary of a Sketchbook Artist

To see more photos of Anna’s notebook sketches, follow @sally_mao on Instagram.

“The absolute truth appears in your drawing when you have no chance to change it,” says Moscow-based Instagrammer Anna Rastorgueva (@sally_mao), who creates an exquisite daily diary using only felt-tip markers. She takes inspiration from the detailed illustrations of botany and zoology books, a lifelong love of hers. “When I read ‘Brehm’s Life of Animals,’ I dreamed of meeting all the heroes from the pages of his book,” she explains. Anna draws anywhere, whether standing among thousands of people at a concert or even at a nude beach. For her, drawing is her personal space. “When I draw, I can dive deep into the moment and emotions. As Salvador Dalí said, ‘Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.’”

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Fuyuko Matsui

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Fuyuko Matsui

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Fuyuko Matsui

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They doom to pass in solitude the hours.

Peter Newell, from The hunting of the snark, by Lewis Carroll, New York, 1903.

A zip file containing the six illustrations of the latest series can be downloaded at this link.

(Source: archive.org)

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Artist on Tumblr

Sue Bryan | on Tumblr (USA) - Charcoal & carbon on arches (2013-2014)

Sue Bryan is an Irish artist, living and working in New York City: “My work is drawing based. My passion for drawing lies in the compelling urge to capture the things that inherently move me. Much of drawing’s appeal to me lies in its very constraint, its simplification, the reduction of nature’s macrocosm to the black of the charcoal and the white of the paper. For me, the act of drawing is an end in itself.”

© All images courtesy of the artist

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