FIGURE GROUP 4/20

Things started out slow for me last night but a couple of things that aren't too bad.

One for "realism".

MARI MY FRIEND-NOW AND THEN charcoal, acrylic and WC 41 x 28

Nothing of note from the Figure Group from me last night. This is a drawing of an old friend,

also a member of the Atlanta School of Art Class of '62. She's done and is still doing very well as an artist.

LITTLE HUMMERS

A friend forwarded an email with great pictures of humming birds. Beautiful little creatures.

CHARLIE MY BOY acrylic 30" x 38"

Charlie was an old friend who left us a couple of years ago at age 13. I painted him as I remembered him with out some of the problems he had later in life. I have no idea how that nekkid woman got in the picture. I've had that problem before when immortalizing one of my dogs. More on that at a later time.

Had intended to enter this in the "Shared Expressions" exhibit but decided against it.

THE END OF APRIL

The figure drawing group had the same model for the last 2 sessions in April. Some say she's a Sarah Palin look-a-like but I think her saying she'd gone out on Halloween as Sarah may have re-enforced that. I think she's a dead ringer for Monica Lewinsky but that was long ago.

Prone poses have some difficult viewpoints. I picked this one because it offered an exercise in foreshortening. Only one more difficult angle, the opposite end. Devlin had that one. Not a good drawing but does address the situation.

The angle is not quite as challenging on this one.

'Nuff said about this kind of thing. We've had this lady 3 times and for some reason I find her difficult to draw.

The longest pose for anything posted so far is about 25 minutes, the shortest 2 minutes.