drawing on saturday

3 little drawings, a couple of them could work in small paintings. We'll see.
All 14 x 17 in graphite.

I have a new live in model (not the one below) but she won't be still. Keeps wagging her tail. She doesn't understand the concept of not being patted and petted all the time either. Hard to work in the studio but hopefully she'll figure it out.

1/1/11

2 figures

Many moons ago the concept of being alive in 2011 was an abstract one. I had hoped to celebrate the new year by finishing everything I was working on but I have fallen short. The larger paintings just needed more layers of paint than I could do in the time constraints.

However, I did finish 8 small paintings, miniatures to me. They are 8 x 8 or 8 x 9 inches. The square ones are 8 x 8 and the ones that aren't square are 8 x 9. Ha! 4 figures and 4 portraits in what I hope is a traditional style. 7 of them are oil on masonite panels, 1 is on stretched canvas. I've mounted them on a slightly larger piece of masonite painted black so that when framed the rabbit won't cover the edge of the painting and give a black reveal around the picture. This isn't an original way.

I went to the trouble of setting the white balance on the camera but should have left it on auto. I just couldn't do it all over. whine!

So I have 20 or so blank formats of all size plus the 3 leftovers to start the year. we'll see how that goes.

So here they are with a progress foto at the end.

Happy New Year.

conroy

coastal figure

figure

Janet

Kimberly

Lydia drinking

Lydia eating

Puff # ?

The end

Drawing Once Again

I had actually gotten a little burned out on drawing. Last Saturday we had a new model that I found interesting. If you get one good drawing out of a session that's good. We have another new model in the morning. hope that one works out as well.

September at the MAC.

Decided to put up some of the paintings from the September show that haven't been posted before.

Me on opening night


Director's Chairs

Crack in the Wall

A Cup of Coffe and.................................

A.K.A. Alice

Looking Through the Door By the Bad Assed Bird............

Foots

and this one wasn't in the show.

Oh Sh*t

Fantastic Exhibit at MAC

well, it's been a while since I hung a bunch of stuff on a wall and said come look at it



Not totally happy with the way this is hung but we just couldn't find a way that fixed everything. It certainly looks better than the way I'd originally laid it out. Of course it has 6 less pieces. I'd taken 24 things not knowing what it would take to fill the room. One of the paintings that was cut,"Charlie My Boy" is a sad loss. It's shown at the bottom of this post.

It's hard to photograph pencil drawings under glass so they are visable.

All said and done, I think the show looks fine and I hope that those that come will find it interesting.

And here's "Charlie My Boy" left out in the cold. Well, heat actually.

More Figure Drawings

Haven't posted anything from the figure drawing groups lately so thought I'd catch up. I have got to find a better light setup to photograph graphite drawings or start working in a different media.

A new, first time model last night, a friend of Joni, one of our regular models on Saturdays. She did very well. All in all it was such a good session that I'm posting almost all of the drawings that I did. One that isn't posted went to the model. As I understand it the story goes; she reluctantly told her mother she was thinking about modeling for an art class but didn't know if she should. Her mom told her she "had to", that she'd done it "back in the day". So I gave her a drawing to show her mom. Forgot to mention to her that if her mom wants to come out of "retirement" ..............



The first 3 show 1 minute more or less gesture drawings.

The next 3 are 5 minute incompletes.

This one would be 10 minutes

The next 2 are twenty minutes each.

The one below is almost a ringer for a painting I'm doing now. Seated contraposto.

Three drawings of Sharon from a couple of weeks ago. This is the best I've done with her in a long time.

And finally one of Enya from sometime in the past that I don't think has been on previously.

Not getting much art done this week. I'm in the middle of building a studio that if there are no disasters should be finished by late next week. I can hardly wait.

Starting March

"Fly Away on a Magic Beach Towel" acrylic 42 x 38

I guess this is the obligatory beach scene. Doesn't seem much changed from the last post but it really is. This one may be good for re-using the stretcher strips. I've got 4 little paintings underway that need to be finished in some way. I'm ready for a shift in what I'm doing. This picky stuff is getting boring. I like the bird.



It wasn't a great drawing week. A couple of things from Saturday of Joni. With her they should all be good.

Joni's foots

A little "up the nose" experiment

Update on the seagull

I'd intended to post the progress on this painting each time I worked on it but just haven't done so. This painting is making me wish that I was working in oils. I've been working in acrylics so long but am missing the flexibility of oil paint.



Have no idea where this painting is going. I like the bird though.

Figure Drawing 2/24/10

Our model last night had laryngitis like symptoms and couldn't talk. Sign language with a Russian accent is even more difficult.

Before the session started was talking to a friend and they reminded me of the principles of an English painter that I like involving planar break down of the forms of the figure. So I decided that would be my direction for the night. I don't think it turned out all bad. This would be better in ink washes or even charcoal but I'm lazy so I stuck to graphite.

Things went quickly and a couple of times a was able to do a second take on a pose.

I'm going to try to do a few of these as small acrylic studies. Got to do something useful with all these drawings.