Memory Drawing Prompts

This week’s Memory Drawing Prompt image is a photograph of a plaster cast. It is a detail of a hand holding a staff.

This week’s Memory Drawing Prompt image is a drapery study by American artist John Singer Sargent.

This week’s Memory Drawing Prompt image is a drapery study by French artist Pierre Paul Prud’hon.

This week’s Memory Drawing Prompt image is a drapery study of the Erythraean Sibyl for the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo.

This week’s Memory Drawing Prompt image is a drapery study by Albrecht Dürer.

This week’s Memory Drawing Prompt image is a still life by the nineteenth-century French painter, Henri Fantin-Latour. As a student of Père Lecoq, he was therefore thoroughly schooled in memory drawing. The painting is titled, Three Peaches on a Plate, from 1868.

Like last week, this week’s Memory Drawing Prompt image is a still life by the nineteenth-century French painter, Henri Fantin-Latour. He was most well known as a painter of still lifes, though he was also a portrait and landscape painter. The painting is titled Apples, and it was painted in 1868.

This week’s Memory Drawing Prompt image is another still life by the nineteenth-century French painter, Henri Fantin-Latour. He was a friend of Whistler’s (another artist known for his memory drawing prowess), who helped promote his work to the English upper classes. The painting is titled, Still Life with Mustard Pot, from 1860.

This week’s Memory Drawing Prompt image is another still life by the nineteenth-century French painter, Henri Fantin-Latour. The painting is simply titled, Peaches, from 1866.

This week’s Memory Drawing Prompt image is another still life by the nineteenth-century French painter, Henri Fantin-Latour. The painting is titled, Plate of Peaches, and it was painted in 1862.