Miss Miley...son

Window to the soul...son

Blue Eyes and stripes...son

a homework assignment, drawing like a style from the 1920's

son's original!

Poker Face...son

My son's love of poker.

If you look close enough you can see, spades, clubs, hearts and diamonds, wearing headphones.

When I asked him where the idea came from, he put his hands next to his head and said "Poof!"

lol

hitting the high one...son

mystical...son

a cute couple...son

Zombie alert...son

Son's drawings part 2

who is he

Proud papa, son's latest drawings

The Google Art Project

Please click on the title to get to the web site!

I get the Art Knowledge news letter several times a week. As I scroll through the different painting and articles, looking for something of interest, I spotted this link. googleartproject.com

On occasion, Google does something wonderful, something no one else would think of, this is one of those times.

NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art, along with 16 other art museums from the United States, Europe, and Russia, is collaborating with Google on the Art Project, a website that enables users to discover and view more than 1,000 artworks online in extraordinary detail. The site launched today and can be explored at googleartproject.com. Over the last 18 months, Google worked with a range of museums, including four from the United States: MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frick Collection, and the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian, Washington. The partnership involved taking a selection of extremely high resolution images of famous artworks, as well as collating more than 1,000 other images into one place. It also included capturing 360-degree tours of individual galleries using Street View "indoor" technology. With this unique project, anyone anywhere in the world will be able to learn about the history and artists behind a huge number of works, at the click of a mouse. 
Each of the museums worked in extensive collaboration with Google, providing expertise and guidance on every step of the project, from choosing which collections to feature, to advising on the best angle to capture photos, to determining what kind of information should accompany the artwork. Each museum selected one artwork to be photographed in extraordinary detail using super high resolution, or "gigapixel" photo-capturing technology. MoMA's gigapixel photo is of Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889). Each image contains around 7 billion pixels, enabling the viewer to study details of the brushwork and patina beyond that possible with the naked eye. In addition, museums provided images for a selection totalling more than 1,000 works of art. The resolution of these images, combined with a custom-built zoom viewer, allows art-lovers to discover minute aspects of paintings they may never have seen up close before. The gigapixel image of The Starry Night is accompanied by a MoMA-produced video that features visitors' points of view of the painting.

If you like art or want to know more, this is an easy way to see great works of art on your computer screen!

and now for a viewing cup of coffee

ray

Man in pencil-Oliver Rodin part two

A difficult face drawing to do for me. I will have to change up on the pencils on the next one.
oh well, part two.

Man in pencil-Oliver Rodin part one

As with the teenager, I will do this in four parts

adding detail as I go along

the author was a next door neighbor to Oliver Rodin

yes, his brother is the famous sculptor Rodin

I hope part four is much better then part one

ray

Teenager in pencil part four

Enough is enough on the teenager.

It is the best I could do for now.

I missed getting a slight tilt to the head

and making your smile a bit nicer.

But it is time to move on to the next subject

which will also be in stages.

later 

ray

Teenager In Pencil part two-three

I kind of jumped the gun and combined part two and three

in this drawing.

I am not yet happy with this

I hope the final part will fare better

As always, I try my best

Teenager In Pencil Part One

Resisting the urge to do the finally drawing, I will do this in stages like in the book, adding detail as I go along.

I hope it improves, you will be the judge...

His and Her Hand

Arm With Dark Drapery

Torso and Arm

Can You Ear Me?