Tag: drawing

Female head study, graphite & white pencil on recycled/brown paper. 

I am forever indebted to anonymous girls on the internet for the infinite supply of photo references. To each one, thank you, beautiful lady, wherever you are. I would be a lesser artist if it weren’t for your generosity and/or low self-esteem. 

I was talking to someone about drawing girls. It has been too long since I’ve done any drawing, and way too long since I’ve done any drawings of girls. I maintain that drawing girls is more difficult because the details are more subtle. I think his point was that he prefers drawing girls because GIRLS. I conceded. 

As For Violating a Privacy… – page from Moleskine sketchbook. Pencil, collage, etc. 

There’s a quote here from a Leo Steinberg essay (“Objectivity and the Shrinking Self”), where he’s taking another art historian to task for choosing to glide over the issue of Michelangelo’s homosexuality as if it had no bearing on his life or art. The historian’s argument was that some things should be kept private. But societal taboos change and people are private about different things anyway. For some people, sexuality isn’t a big deal but they are reluctant to talk about death or spirituality or money or the teaming of socks with sandals. Example: I feel sleazy about watching people write or sign things, because to me there is something intensely personal about the way someone holds a pen. But I’m fairly ok with other people’s nudity. (Not my own. I shower in the dark.)

In case it’s not legible, the quote reads:

As for violating a privacy, who can say where an ultimate privacy lurks? Centres of privacy shift.