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Jay Arrera

Author: Jay Arrera

  • SketchCrawl – 26-FEB-2010

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    On Saturday I hosted a SketchCrawl in Eugene, OR. For those of you you have not heard of it, these are international drawing marathons coordinated several times a year. People gather around the world on one day, do plein air sketching and painting, and share their images. It’s a great way to meet new artists…

  • Sketchbook – 21-DEC-2009 Part 2

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    Another Sepia and Black ink drawing. Comments welcome. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhoneShare

  • Sketchbook – 21-DEC-2009

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    A recent sketch that I hadn’t posted yet. I have to be in a certain obessive-compulsive fram of mind to have the patience for this type of rendering. I had been doing a lot of work with black ink and ft like I was pushing the limits of mid-tones with cross-hatching. This image was an…

  • Sketchbook – 19-DEC-2009

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    My latest iPhone painting. Must be the Christmas season, but I felt a little winter snow was appropriate. You can see more of my iPhone paintings in my portfolio:http://www.jayarrera.com/porfolio.html?albumid=5397848266403850657 Comments welcome. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhoneShare

  • Sketchbook – 01-NOV-2009

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    A recent sketch. Regardless of your politics, there is something appealing about Barack Obama. I’m thinking I might sculpt a portrait of him. Besides being interesting to look at, there is a lot of emotional subtext to images of him. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhoneShare

  • Anatomy – Foot Sculpture

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    I completed this anatomical foot over the weekend. It’s life-size. This was actually a lot of fun, and only took about four hours. It was really good practice, and a great refresher course. I’ve been wanting to collect some plaster casts for drawing for some time now. I finally realized, ‘Why buy casts? I can…

  • Sketchbook – 10-OCT-2009

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    A recent drawing from my sketchbook. I took this picture directly with my iPhone and cropped and adjusted with Photoshop Mobile. With mobile publishing I will be able to update significantly more often than I have been. Cuts out a ton of manual work flow. — Posted from my iPhone Share

  • Construction vs Representation

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    At this point, I’ve probably spent more time studying anatomy than most Doctors. But you definitely don’t want me performing any surgery on you. Anatomy for figurative artists is very much vocation-specific. We focus on the gross anatomy: skeletal system and external muscles. We are much more interested in function and form, rather than the…

  • What is Art?

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    Defining what ‘art’ is has always been an exercise in futility, but people will continue to do so as it is human nature to categorize and define. It is my belief that the physical presence of art is an artifact of the process. It is the creation and interpretation of art that has value. The…

  • Back to Basics

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    Most of my studio time I spend working from reference images. This is unfortunate, since the work that I create based on reference images is generally more static than when I am working from a model. For many years, I would choose not to work at all if I couldn’t work from a model. Over…