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

Figure Study 6-4-2015

Figure Study 6-4-2015

9" X 12"

Oil on Paper

2 Hr.

Alla Prima Portrait 5-4-2015

Alla Prima Portrait 5-4-2015

11" X 14"

Oil on Canvas

2 Hr.

Untitled #300

Untitled #300 

24" X 36"

Charcoal on Paper

25 min.

2014

Daily Figure 4-30-15

Daily Figure 4-30-15

24" X 36"

Charcoal on Paper

25 Min.

Daily Figure 4-28-15

Daily Figure 4-28-15

24" X 36"

Charcoal on Paper

2015

I've been fairly verbose in describing many of my posts up to now, but I feel at this point that much of my working process has been described in fairly good detail. So much so, that I've had to look back through earlier posts to make sure I'm not repeating myself. Given this, I'm going to be much more to the point in describing the work I post unless there is some new information that is worthy of adding. Thanks for looking, and reading.

This 25 min. drawing was completed as part of a daily figure drawing routine. 

Untitled #36

Untitled #36

22" X 30"

Charcoal on Paper

2013

Male models are infrequent at many of the workshops I've been to, so this 1.5 Hr. drawing completed at Angels Gate was a nice change. The male form lends itself much more easily to the way I work in general. This made the process of form interpretation a much more straightforward effort. 

Untitled #119

Untitled #119

24" X 36"

Charcoal on Paper

2013

This 40 min. pose from life worked out well in that the model displayed a nice shift between the head and torso directions. The models quiet and stoic expression lent itself well to the rigidity in his posture. This is no slouching pose.  

Ellipses, Spheres, and circular shapes are where my particular working attack of segmentation becomes the most evident, as in the oval shape at the bottom of the stool. It's very polygonal*, or as some would say; faceted.

*Polygon: A closed planar path comprised of a series of straight line segments.