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A Sketch of Balyn (my Corgi)  as John Steed from “The Avengers”.

C.nick Arach

A life sketch of one my neighbors.

Robert Burns

I just finished my Burns Night project, so I am all set for tomorrow. It’s a sidewalk chalk drawing of Robert Burns, under it is the last verse of “Scots Wha Hae”:

“Lay the proud usurper low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty’s in every blow!-
         Let us do, or die!”

C.nick Arach

The Moment

("The Moment", C.nick Arach, 2011)

Inspired by Dostoyevsky's "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man"

C.nick Arach

The Start

The Start, Graphite, C.nick, 2012

For those of you familiar with Dog Agility, have you ever wonder what the dog sees on the start line? I have and the above is the result of it.

C.nick Arach

Leonardo says,

 

“And if you, O poet, tell a story with your pen, the painter with his brush can tell it more easily, with simpler completeness and less tedious to be understood. And if you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting. Now which is the worse defect? to be blind or dumb? Though the poet is as free as the painter in the invention of his fictions they are not so satisfactory to men as paintings; for, though poetry is able to describe forms, actions and places in words, the painter deals with the actual similitude of the forms, in order to represent them. Now tell me which is the nearer to the actual man: the name of man or the image of the man. The name of man differs in different countries, but his form is never changed but by death.” _ Leonardo da Vinci

This drawing (a sketch for my bigger work “The Artist’s Table”) is done in silverpoint, which is basically a little silver rod. Leonardo himself used it, as did a lot of other Renaissance artists. For more info on silverpoint I’ve posted these links:

Silverpoint Web
Wikipedia: Silverpoint

 C.nick Arach