Happy Halloween?

It seems that Halloween isn't even allowed to finish it's time these days.  I have seen several stores with Christmas already up, a ...

The Weed of Crime...

... bears bitter art. Something different today. Just dinkin' around last night after I finished a commissioned nude since I am fallin...

Double Exposure

A couple of drawings from the end of the evening.  I thought I'd give a head shot a try and rather than move to another page I just work...

Better

This is more like it.  Confident yet subtle lines, the complementary shading, the small areas of detail.  I don't know where my head was...

Oops

Not sure what's wrong with this one but all I know is I don't care for it. I think it looks "cartoony". Not what I was h...

Another in the same vein

Although the handling is a little heavier than yesterday's image, the devil's in the details in this one as well.  Unlike the last p...

It's a building process

I am really happy with the line work on this particular drawing.  I deliberately chose to work on the figure and give the head short shrift....

Use what you got

This was the first drawing of the evening and I used what was left of some paper I had.  Notice the cut lines and such.  Too bad, it's a...

New work

A familiar model gives one freedom to explore a bit more than normal. At least that is the case with me. These are the gesture drawings fr...

Drawing Tonight...

yeah. Here is another oldie. New stuff tomorrow.

Too tutu

At one time we had a dancer for a model. She graciously posed a la Degas and this was probably my best effort. Again, simplified shapes an...

Another old sketch

Nothing witty (as if there ever is) so I will just post this piece from about 5 years ago. I always thought this looked like an academic st...

More old stuff

This one hangs in our home. I have always been partial to the simplicity of this piece. The tilt of the head, the scarf and the hair all l...

Just a drawing

No insight.  Nothing to say.  Enjoy your Sunday, everybody.

An older sketch

I hope I haven't posted this one before, my record keeping was a little iffy at the beginning of this little venture.  Anyhow, this piec...

Last of last week

and then I'll have to pull some from the distant past.   This one was a bad drawing that I just decided to work over.  I started with bl...

No Drawing Tonight, Guys

We will meet at our regular time next week.  In the meantime, here is another sketch from last week.  Not as successful as the last two but ...

Ebb and flow

Well, really just flow.  Probably my best effort of the night.  Long lines and simple shapes make for an elegant pose.  Not much else to say...

Okay...

... I'm pretty pleased with this one.  I've always been partial to back poses and this one has a lot going for it.  Starting with th...

Seated

Back to the terra cotta or sanguine or red or whatever one wants to call it.  I really liked this pose and started to play a bit with the lo...

Back in Black

Black conté, that is.  A switch from sanguine to black was a bit startling when I did it and it seemed to affect the way I was approaching t...

A reality check

I'd like to go on about the design elements and the manner in which the conté was applied and so on, but sometimes reality kind of puts ...

Gesture pages

Hmmm. Maybe, just maybe I'm still in a bit of the groove. Here are the gestures from last night. I stuck entirely to conté for the ev...

Hoping to keep it going

This was the last drawing from last Thursday.  There is more energy to this one and a lot more to the pose, giving us more spatial problems ...

Conté

This is the one that made my night.  Almost got the whole figure but that wasn't the point, the pose was fluid and the lines just flowed...

Switch to an old friend

Why it has taken me so long to get back to conté I don't know, but it sure was great to use it again. I'm not sure if I had finally...

Finally...

one I am pleased with.  I know that there is no shading for form, but I took the time to really observe and render with a bit of care and, a...

Getting there

Starting to get in the groove.  Better stuff to come.

Warming up

These were the first couple of efforts of the night and I still hadn't found my groove.  The back shot had the most going for it but I w...

Better

Here are the gestures from last night. I did a really quick shoot this morning and will be reshooting this stuff tomorrow. Until then, her...

Tonight will be better

Stephanie will be the model again tonight and I hope, no I vow, to do better.  I hate being haunted by a wasted opportunity to produce good ...