Some recent drawings...from actual life! Yes, real life. Eat hot sh*t COVID. Lots of it.
Showing posts with label From Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label From Life. Show all posts
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Monday, August 7, 2017
Pushing it further—Mark Session Back Pose 08/05/2017
For the curious—I went to the trouble to make a animated gif (it may take a bit to load) which illustrates the progress of this life drawing that has been furthered beyond the time with the model. The original is what was achieved with the model posing for 25 min. The image with the additions was completed in about 40 extra minuets. So about an hour in all.
Although I still use Newsprint for 2-15 minutes poses, I've moved on to using a higher quality paper for most of my short pose work in the range of 20-25 minutes. Because of this, I've felt compelled to take these a bit further with additional work. As many may know, Newsprint doesn't take reworking very well at all. So it's a pursuit I've never really gotten into with short pose drawings. But it's a lot of fun to push the notation inherent to short pose work into something more fleshed out so to speak. It really allows you to think a bit more about what you want to emphasize and what you want to play down while still attempting to keep it all tethered to reality somehow. Oftentimes I wind up liking the original better, but as always—there is progress in the destruction.
Mark Session Back Pose 08/05/2017 - 25 Min. Pose (image 1) - 25 Min. Pose with additional work (image 2) - 18" X 24" - Carbon Pencils, Vine Charcoal, and White Pastel Pencil on Charcoal Paper
Sunday, March 12, 2017
A collection of Sara Streeter Works
Sara Streeter Session 1/16/2016
25 Min. from Life
24" X 36"
Charcoal on Paper
Sara Streeter Session 1/23/2016
2 Hrs. from Life
24" X 36"
Charcoal on Paper
Sara Streeter Session 9/6/2016
25 Min. from Life
24" X 36"
Charcoal on Paper
Sara Streeter Session 1/14/2017
2 Hrs. from Life
18" X 24"
Charcoal on Paper
Sara Streeter Session 1/24/2017
5 Min. from Life
18" X 24"
Charcoal on Paper
Sara Streeter Session 2/08/2017
2 Hrs. from Life
13" X 15"
Oil on Canvas
Sara Streeter Session 11/03/2016
20 Min. from Life
24" X 36"
Charcoal on Paper
Sara Streeter is a quite a legendary figure model in the L.A. area. She is the standard candle of art models, in my humble opinion. Collected here are various works completed over the last year or so.
Monday, October 19, 2015
3-28-2015 Life Drawing - 01
3-28-2015 Life Drawing - 01
24" X 36"
Charcoal on Paper
40 Min. From Life
2015
Thursday, September 17, 2015
Friday, September 11, 2015
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Thursday, August 27, 2015
Monday, August 24, 2015
Reclining Portrait 8-1-2015
Reclining Portrait 8-1-2015
24" X 36"
Charcoal on Paper
25 Min. From Life
Friday, August 21, 2015
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Saturday, July 18, 2015
Friday, July 10, 2015
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Saturday, March 21, 2015
Gwyneth Seated in Monochrome
Gwyneth Seated in Monochrome
9" X 12"
Oil on Paper
2015
I painted this the other morning from life out in 29 Palms in a little under two hours. It was another trek for me across the mass of Southern California to a place I've never been. The workshop was held at a place called 29 Palms Creative Center & Gallery and the host, other artists, and model were more than pleasant company to keep. The drive there was amazing too. So many wildflowers in the desert. The most I've seen in quite a few years.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Skeleton Study in Green Monochrome
Skeleton Study in Green Monochrome
9" X 12"
Oil on Paper
2014
This is a 2 hour study of a full size skeleton that I purchased back in the 90s. I've returned to paint and draw from it on countless occasions. The human skeleton, along with other animals in nature, is a work of tremendous complexity and presents a unique challenge when used as subject material due to the innumerous small forms of detail throughout.
In using it as a subject over the years it really sinks in after awhile just how complicated the spine is in particular. It's like this giant tree trunk of electrical wiring running right down the body carrying out much of what the brain commands and each vertebrae is riddled with processes, ridges, and nodules. It's a bit counterintuitive given how simple the back appears from a surface anatomy perspective. In fact the back, especially the lower back on the male figure, is one of the most continuously homogenous shapes on the human form in general. It's really quite deceptive.
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