At yesterday’s drawing from history workshop, we explored Michelangelo’s ‘Art of the Nude’, and what an experience it was listening to Jon (The Renaissance Workshop) expound the life of this Master sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance. Here’s a sketch of Adam in the fresco ‘The Creation of Man’ on the vault of the Sistine Chapel, the original is seen right at the top of this post.
Study for the nude youth over the Prophet Daniel.
Studies of the back and left arm of a male nude… I like working with the nude form, there’s something sublime, poetic about the contours of a body, especially the female form.
So during the workshop, Jon said that the unfinished nature of these sketches makes them more alive, cause we can use imagination to fill the space. This was an amazing workshop, thank you Jon for a magical time.