Menzel Book Scan

A few years ago I scanned some of Adolph Menzel's Drawings from a book or something. If you don't know his work, consider it a nice introduction. His drawings are a wealth of information, conveying so much character and life, often portrayed in stunning shorthand and brevity, using every part of the pencil/crayon/charcoal to tell the story.

 A recommended book is "Adolph Menzel 1815-1905 Between Romanticism and Impressionism."

Download Scanned Images (32 files, 130 mb)

Some photos of Adolph "The Little Man That Could" Menzel.

Jus Chillin' in the shade yall

 "Where the Magick Happenz"

 "Menzel = Dead, 1905. Menzel's art = Never diez"

Some of the scans ( I didn't edit them in anyway, but they probably need a bit of cleaning up).

Sorolla!!!

These photos are from the Sorolla museum last year when I was in Madrid. I didn't take as many photos as I should have, I was too busy drooling over his colour and energetic painting style.

they are at their full resolution and you can view them all here.

download the whole batch of 15 or so as a zip file (its about 50 megs)


here are a few to preview them.

Loved the Self portrait. So good.

The Main Room of the Studio.

Close up of the face

The Hand knocked my socks off, there is so much movement and life in what is essentially a flat shape

So much vibrance. The diagonal and interesting sailboat shadow and the boat add interest and break the otherwise peaceful repose of the major horizontals. The sand is so amazing when you see it. Genius is in simplification :D

The last painting he worked on. I love seeing artists studios, and its so awesome to check it out in real life. The paintings above contain plenty of outdoor scenes from the beautiful garden outside the house.

*** BONUS VAN DYCK HAND****

From the Prado, kept getting in trouble for trying to take photos, this is the only one that turned out half decent. But damn, it's so well painted. I did a few studies of this one in my sketchbook.

scraps

just a coupla things i found on my hard drive and realised i forgot to post heh!
havent been drawing or painting the past few days, just reading and doing other things...
i will be posting up some cool stuff in the next coming days though! Not art of my own...but some photos of paintings from sorolla museum, waterhouse, and hopefully if i get the time some menzel scans...you will see!!

oil studies

just some monochromatic quick oil thingies done on scraps of canvas to get back into painting, just trying to improve and learn but also have fun.

this was one was done in a sitting - as i was fleshing out his character, kinda reminded me of bukowski, i had loads of fun doing his expression.

this was 2 sittings/
experimenting with using just a brown and white, but how u can get really warm thin shadows and then let that dry, then paint over the lights with cooler opaque and keep the shadows thin and warm.

one sitting from a photo...but i had to change lots from the photo...too much detail... had loads of fun.

Totem Spirit

I'm trying to build a folio for Illustration, and this image was supposed to be a bit more conventional but unfortunately I just got carried away, and the final is just as much a surprise to me as it is to you!

The scribbles turned into branches, an owl and slightly aztec organic wobbly architecture- I sort of lost control towards the end, but at least I learnt a lot and I got a lot of new ideas, which is exciting.

It took 2.5 days, it's about A3 and pencil with some pastel, and I put up some process shots to show you what I mean.