From the Sketchbook: Studies of Art I Love

So, in my down time, I love doing sketches of art I love.  It's a fun way to really study the work.  I'm especially interested in how other artists approach representation of the figure.

Below are my sketches of two of Alex Kanevsky's paintings.  My drawings come no where near doing the work justice - at all; so, check him out cause his work is in-freakin-credible!  One of the other things I love about him is that he doesn't include a bunch of information about his paintings and doesn't do bios on them - at all.  He wants to let the work speak for itself and stand alone.  I'm not a big fan of works/artists that (who) need to have a bunch of verbal communication to explain/justify a visual work.  Art is a visual method of communication, and I really believe that, if it's good work, it requires no other methods of communication other than the visual.  

I did, however, find a great interview done with him. http://rtspot.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/alex-kanevsky/ 

Sketches of Alex Kanevsky's paintings