This year I was using one of the pieces that I study each month for my Loring Art Calendar 2013. February is for Dmitry Kabalevsky. I was working on one of his works, the first piece of 24 Pieces for Children, op. 39. Very easy tune. After I started to play it I was listening other works by Kabalevsky, he wrote wonderful works.
First of all, Happy New Year to all my subscribers and visitors! I wish you all a wonderful year. I have not been drawing (nor posting) lately but I have been playing piano (and flute, but it is a different post). So the motif for my Loring Art Calendar 2013 will be one of the pieces that I am working each month. January is for one of my favorite composers: Béla Bartók. I am studying Mikrokosmos, Sz. 107, which consists of 153 progressive piano pieces. The score corresponds to No. 5 Six Unison Melodies (V).
I also want to thanks Carl D’Agostino for his kind post with a couple of my sketches. Please visit and follow his blog I Know I made you smile.
Each drawing of my Loring Art Calendar 2012 is a tribute to one of my favorite artists. As I said it is a way of thanking them for uploading their artworks to the Internet. While they are sharing their work for free, we are enjoying and learning.
The June sketch is inspired by a drawing by Leslie White. It was not easy to select a Leslie’s painting, all of them are fantastic and very inspiring. I chose a watercolor of the Empire State Building on a mixture of gesso. The painting looks awesome and the whole post is very interesting. Leslie, thank you for sharing all those wonderful experiences. I used a photo by Ben Bunch as reference.
Each drawing of my Loring Art Calendar 2012 is a tribute to one of my favorite artists. As I said it is a way of thanking them for uploading their artworks to the Internet. While they are sharing their work for free, we are enjoying and learning.
The May sketch is inspired on this drawing by Rob Carey. Rob used as reference for his drawing a painting by the German Expressionist painter August Macke. Three different versions of the same scene. I used a photo by Wolfgang Pittkowski as reference.
Each drawing of my Loring Art Calendar 2012 is a tribute to one of my favorite artists. As I said it is a way of thanking them for uploading their artworks to the Internet. While they are sharing their work for free, we are enjoying and learning.
The April sketch is inspired by a drawing by Debbie Adams. As many of you know, her drawing of Cape Hatteras is used in a Derwent package. I have already seen the package and it was one of my favorite drawings. Then, I discovered her wonderful blog and I learned who was the author. Internet is cool thing. Thank you, Deb, this one’s for you.
Each drawing of my Loring Art Calendar 2012 is a tribute to one of my favorite artists. As I said it is a way of thanking them for uploading their artworks to the Internet. While they are sharing their work for free, we are enjoying and learning.
The March sketch is based on a series of drawings by Pete Scully. It is the Old City Hall building in Davis, California. It was built in 1938 and it has since served as a fire station, a police station and now, a restaurant. I have used a photo by Gray Brechin as reference.
Each drawing of my Loring Art Calendar 2012 is a tribute to one of my favorite artists. As I said it is a way of thanking them for uploading their artworks to the Internet. While they are sharing their work for free, we are enjoying and learning.
This February sketch is based on a Nina Johansson‘s drawing. Nina is an awesome artist. She maintains her blog where she posts advices on art materials and her watercolor paintings. Her drawing is a view of the Stockholm City Museum. I have never been to Stockholm so I have used this photo by Joongi Kim as reference.
Happy new year! And happy new calendar. This post corresponds to the first of the Loring Art Calendar 2012 drawings. This year every month will be a tribute to one of my favorite Internet artists: the drawing will be inspired by or based on one of his/her paintings, drawings or sketches. It is a way of thanking them for sharing his/her artwork.
This month the drawing is based on an old Mattias Adolfsson‘s sketch. It corresponds to City Hall of the small and beautiful town of Sigtuna, Sweden.
