Robert J. Blanchette

As mentioned in an earlier post, I decided to draw three large castle drawings for my "Chateaux de la Romandie" project. I have a though decision to make for the third drawing, so I thought I would ask anyone following this project to give some feedback...

This is the second drawing for my Chateaux de Romandie series. You can follow the WIP and read a detailed explanation of how the clouds were drawn and why I made certain choices in how they were rendered. The emphasis of this drawing is the contrasts...

En 2010, la Galerie du Pressoir, rue de Bassenges à Ecublens, fêtera son 25e anniversaire. A cette occasion, le comité d’animation a l’intention d’organiser une exposition sur le thème « Ecublens vu par les peintr...

To get motivated it is sometimes fun just to take a subject and sketch it. This is a sketch I did one morning to get me started for the day. Sketching is fun, fast and many times gives a better result than I anticipated.

Drawing the Castle {rokbox size=|325 319|}images/stories/wip/vufflens/vufflens-le-chateau-4a.jpg{/rokbox} The steeple of the main tower is covered in copper and the roof with clay shingles...

New update on my Vufflens Castle drawing. I decided to go with dark heavy clouds on top tapering back to open sky and then picking up again with some distant clouds with dark and light tones. This helps to bring the castle to the front plane of the drawing...

Drawing Clouds II I have started the main sculpting of the clouds. The difficulty is to get the clouds to tapper back in perspective. The clouds at the top should appear closer than those at the bottom giving an illusion of distance...

Drawing Clouds I started to draw the clouds and background elements for the Chateau de Vufflens drawing. The clouds will be a very present part of the drawing. They will be highly developed and intentially highly contrasted with the castle...

Reference Sketch This is a sketch that I did of the castle. I like this angle and view. Originally I wanted to have the main tower more centered, so I will crop the image and draw it in portrait rather than landscape format. This cropping and angle better represents that theme of openness...

I considered several criteria in evaluating my art and that of others. I don’t think that bad art exists. What I do believe is that beauty can be evaluated in art when beauty is the goal. So what criteria do I use when viewing paintings? I use the 12 points discussed by a guy named Andrew Loomis. ...

I finished my first drawing for the Chateaux Romandie series. This drawing was produced over two months. I invested around 100 hours for this final result. I have worked out the techniques that I will be using for these castle drawings...

I’m comfortable with the techniques that I have established for drawing the different aspects of the castles. Things like vineyards, stone walls, deteriorating walls, thatched roofs, trees, atmospheric perspective, to name a few. ...

I have made some good progress on the Chateau d'Aigle drawing that I started during the first week of January. I have around 30 hours into the drawing. The project is working out well...