#silverpoint drawing

[hermit-home]

Newest silverpoint drawing and new mythical creature invented?

The western pikalope is a distant relative of the jackalope, but lives at higher elevations in alpine talus slopes, alongside their closer relative, the pika. They can be distinguished from pikas by their larger size and tightly curled horns, which lie close enough to their head to still allow them to shelter in rock crevasses and burrows

[filthyprotozoan]

more cardigan than woman… and sharper than you!

a little gertrude robinson sketch in silverpoint // ko-fi

[themuseumwithoutwalls]

MWW Artwork of the Day (6/16/19) Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528) Albrecht Dürer the Elder (c. 1486) Silverpoint drawing on paper, 28 x 21 cm. The Albertina Museum, Vienna

Albrecht Dürer the Elder (c. 1427–1502), born as "Ajtossy" or "Ajtósi", was a Hungarian goldsmith in Nuremberg and the father of the Northern Renaissance painter Albrecht Dürer.  The elder Albrecht Dürer is shown here holding a piece of his goldsmith work, represents himself as a craftsman. Compare this representation to our discussion of Rogier van der Weyden's painting of "St. Luke Drawing the Virgin."

In many ways, Dürer's painting is a reflection of his drawing, and it can be said that he painted as he drew. His preparatory drawings are like small paintings and are in fact created using a similar technique in which the brush is an instrument that defines the volumes through wash, as well as the line. Dürer prepared his papers in the same way that he prepared his canvases or panels, colouring them to give the richness of effect found in a painting, again following Italian practice of the time. Each drawing and each detail has that sense of form and body created through volume and light which is to be found in the finished painting.

[arinewman7]

Self-portrait, 1484

(@13 years old!)

Albrecht Dürer

silverpoint drawing

[hermit-home]

In this age of AI “art” that cannot render human hands correctly or give a human touch…please enjoy these hand studies of humans doing human things

Drawn in silverpoint, a drawing method that traces back to the renaissance and predates graphite pencils

[hermit-home]

I have completed quite possibly my favorite art piece I’ve done in a long time

Western Steppe Jackalope, silverpoint on prepared paper. (I’m in love with this medium btw. Drawing with pure silver is delightful)

The Western Steppe Jackalope is a seldomn-seen inhabitant of the sagebrush steppe in the western United States. Little is known about them.

Is he about to dash off because he’s been spotted? Is he about to stand up on his hind legs and start asking you riddles? Who’s to say.

[filthyprotozoan]

some vaguely jane prentiss studies in form

silverpoint / ko-fi