Make Big Money as a Charcoal Sketch Artist by Kevin Stone

Old man Henry up there is a model and an actor. 'Gets him away from the labors of painting.' And he draws from life. Assael has been described as 'a new Old Master.' He draws every day. 'His drawings come off the page,' Lorenz says. Steven Assael, Henry and Hammer, 2020, graphite and crayon on paperĬopyright Steven Assael/Courtesy of Forum Gallery, New York Plus, it's something we've all done - doodles as kids, pathetic stick figures, or maybe really nice ones if there's a bit of talent. 'No two artists make their marks in the same way, just as no two people have the same hand writing,' she says. She's executive director of Manhattan's Forum Gallery, and curator of its show 'Drawing Inspiration.' You get a more personal connection to the creator of a drawing. 'Drawings show the hand of the artist,' Nicola Lorenz thinks. I'll tell more about it later, but since drawing is the subject of this essay - and a New York exhibition - that includes Alyssa Monks' gorgeous example, let's linger a while on the many faces that drawing can express.

A most remarkable, painstakingly created drawing. Did the photographer hold the camera in one hand, and an umbrella in the other? Maybe want to hold the umbrella over the woman so she wouldn't get any wetter? Not a bit of that. What's your guess? Is that a photograph? The face is so close and specific. Alyssa Monks, Transfixed (drawing), 2020, vine charcoal on paperĬopyright Alyssa Monks/Courtesy of Forum Gallery, New York

Make Big Money as a Charcoal Sketch Artist by Kevin Stone