Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Vermeer Study

"Woman Playing a Lute Near a Window" in burnt siena and ultramarine blue. What a wonderful painter.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Giotto Study

I'm in Washington, DC teaching for ten days, which accounts for my visual journal hiatus. I'll post some of my workshop exercises--this is a response to the Assisi fresco "St. Francis Honored by a Simple Man." How did Giotto build a composition that began with a square in the middle?