tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post3434398337808618564..comments2024-03-28T16:36:12.581-04:00Comments on Gurney Journey: Painterly drawingJames Gurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-9629368687823674752013-03-13T21:15:41.985-04:002013-03-13T21:15:41.985-04:00Great stuff.James Montgomery Flagg also had a very...Great stuff.James Montgomery Flagg also had a very open loose, impressionistic pen and ink style,even looser than Gibson.He might have been inspired by Whistler and Gibson.Steve Fastnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01550271224882245081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-74734041592885180392013-03-13T14:02:02.950-04:002013-03-13T14:02:02.950-04:00I agree that Leyendecker was a "drawerly pain...I agree that Leyendecker was a "drawerly painter," and I think that accounts for much of his special strength. While Bouguereau and the French academy (and even Zorn) were delicately blending colors and molding forms, Leyendecker was learning to borrow the vitality of graphic work and apply it to painting; he shaped his figures from slashing diagonal lines, creating the illusion of using a paint brush like a pencil. It not only gave his paintings a dynamic feel more appropriate for the faster moving 20th century, it also seemed to give them a structural strength, as if he was exposing their vertebrae for all to see. <br /><br />It seems to me that Leyendecker got some of that approach from Toulouse Lautrec, one of the best "drawerly painters" of all. If you look at "La Toilette" or "In Bed" or "At the Circus Fernando, the rider" (which to this day has one of the best horse's butts ever drawn with a paint brush) you can see a lot of where Leyendecker would be 30 years later.David Apatoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293486149879229016noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-65913345956250858522013-03-13T08:05:44.858-04:002013-03-13T08:05:44.858-04:00The personality and presence conveyed through draw...The personality and presence conveyed through drawings like Leyendecker's is amazing. I marvel at great classical drawing and painting but I prefer the "broader optical effect" as you put it. I feel more involved in work like Leyendecker's. Good post and good pics. Thanks, James. Robert J. Simonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06799208093956328662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-45442548028463446822013-03-12T19:24:19.233-04:002013-03-12T19:24:19.233-04:00Paul Calle's "the Pencil" demonstrat...Paul Calle's "the Pencil" demonstrates his methods of pencil drawing based upon the looked of 19th century wood engravings. Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03687809918074442656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-53521756809753402482013-03-12T15:51:29.228-04:002013-03-12T15:51:29.228-04:00Johan, yes, someone else mentioned his work a whil...Johan, yes, someone else mentioned his work a while ago, and I love it. <br /><br />CGB, I think you're right--there is a kind of drawerly painting. When I'm painting, I like to think I'm drawing with a brush, and when I'm drawing, I like to imagine I'm painting with a pencil. They're really both forms of the same thing, I suppose.James Gurneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-39364829860093877032013-03-12T15:45:38.220-04:002013-03-12T15:45:38.220-04:00I really like the drawings of Colin Davidson:
htt...I really like the drawings of Colin Davidson:<br /><br />http://www.facebook.com/colindavidsonart<br /><br />He draws like a painterJohanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02417615368000033233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-66466702005380002712013-03-12T11:03:15.725-04:002013-03-12T11:03:15.725-04:00Interesting to see how some just are very much pai...Interesting to see how some just are very much painters, no matter what tool they pick up (Zorn!) and others are draughtsmen - and how some seem to be able to combine those two aspects in various ways.<br /><br />I have often been thinking how - the other way round - there also seems to be such a thing as "drawerly painting" (if that's a word - I'm sure a more elegant one could be made up ...). Like some of your own work where you make a detailed line drawing and add some transparent washes of paint on top of it. <br /><br />Also, Leyendecker often seems to use a contour in his paintings, giving them some "drawerly" quality - and his otherwise very bold and painterly brushstrokes often function as some kind of drawn hatching - but then again, applied in a way like here in his drawing that emphasizes the broad optical effect.Christoffer Gertz Bechhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09476765795031856104noreply@blogger.com