Reclined

This is from those long ago days I spoke of yesterday.  Jenny was a terrific model that helped out our group for quite a long time.  We wish...

Back to the drawing... ah, you know what's coming

An older drawing from the days before The Black Hand Group.  We used to meet on Monday nights at MSU-B, formerly and fondly known as Eastern...

Color Sunday

Another piece from one of our painting sessions.  I have tried to finish it in the studio but have never been happy with certain parts.  I...

Color Saturday

  I have a penchant for studies.  I have always been drawn to the unfinished work of artists, my own work included.  There is just something...

The Return of Thursday night drawing...Huzzah!

  There was a decent turnout for our Black Hand Group last night and despite not having enough paper to work with (thanks for bailing me out...

Thursday Life Drawing Returns

  We resume our regular schedule tonight.   I created a new blog for The Black Hand Group yesterday.  Anyone who wants to check and see if ...

Reclined

I've done a lot of drawings in the reclined position but I never tire of the dynamic tension of the body in a position such as this.  Th...

Back to our regularly scheduled program

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Another Monday

We were lucky to have Stephanie as our model yesterday.  We've only had her for the long painting sessions in the past but she really to...

Happy Father's Day

Color Saturday

If we had only known, would we have been as caught up in the Great Home Run Race?  Oh Hank, art thou?

Diablo

I always thought this looked like Gandhi.  This model sat for us a couple of times and then moved on.  Last I saw of him he was hitching his...

Another empty Thursday

No Black Hand Group again.  This really messes with my head.  At least we have Sunday this week.  As for the drawing, just another old piece...

With a Rebel Yell

We really benefitted from this model's hobby of collecting military gear from the many wars that our country was a part of .  Again, we ...

Odd little sketch

Every now and again you get the strange situation that one can only smile about and go with.  This drawing came from one of those sessions. ...

Sprawl

Back to some of the nudes from the Black Hand Group.  I love the look of conté crayon, especially terra cotta.  It is fun to work with altho...

Color Sunday

A final sports related painting.  Back when LeMond ruled American cycling.  Except for some unfortunate events he could have been one of the...

Color Saturday

Iron Mike.  Whatever you think of him, he sure was exciting to watch work.  The man sure could make the sweet science a lot sweeter.  

Friday

No drawing last night so we'll go with the old stuff again.

Black Thursday

  No Black Hand Group tonight.  Our space, generously donated by the Yellowstone Art Museum, is being used for the next two Thursday evening...

Wednesday portrait

Another older piece.  There's just something about the serenity in her expression that has always made me partial to this one.

Three guesses

This model was one of the ones we had for too brief a time.  He left for tryouts with the Chicago Bears soon after this.  The above image is...

I don't like Mondays...

... but I have always liked this drawing.  Cody was an excellent model for us back when we used to meet at MSU-B, the local university here....

Color Sunday... Gold & Black

I've never been a hockey fan (my apologies to those that are) but the images are wonderful to work with.  I did this about the same time...

Color Saturday... Purple & Gold

I became a Lakers fan when Kareem left the Bucks for L. A. way back when.  Then along came Magic and the Showtime era was on.  This was a li...

Thursday Night at the YAM

Here are the sketches from the Black Hand Group session last night.  M is always a great model to work with.  When you get to draw someone o...

Thursday Drawing

Tonight we meet for our weekly figure session at the YAM.  Our model tonight has been with us from the start, going all the way back to our ...

Wednesday's Drawing

  Another from the archives.  I have a good friend who owns some incredible artwork by some incredible artists, not to mention his own.  My ...

Tuesday's Drawing

Another older drawing.  I realize that in recent years I've been concentrating on shorter poses and haven't gotten a lot of good hea...

Mondays drawing

This is a drawing from some time back.  It's hard for me to grasp that the year 2000 was nearly ten years ago.  Just gettin' old, I ...