exaggerating

Posted on February 19, 2020February 20, 2020 Posted in art, art student, artwork, figure drawings2 Comments

I’m participating in Figuary 2020 through the Croquis Cafe (on Vimeo). Last night LoveLifeDrawing’s instructional suggestion was to exaggerate. That inspired this – 16×20, oil:

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stay tuned

Posted on February 7, 2020February 7, 2020 Posted in art, art student, artwork, figure drawings, self portrait2 Comments

I am going to do at least nine more of these! Excited by a new idea.

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Figuary

Posted on February 1, 2020 Posted in art, art student, figure drawings, from photographsLeave a comment

Maybe you’ve heard of Inktober? It’s a daily challenge to draw with ink every day in October. Now we have Figuary, a friendly challenge to draw from a human model each day. One organization (Love Life Drawing) has daily drawing instruction and one has video of models in timed poses (Croquis Cafe).

Here is my 5 min sketch for today:

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And here is my No. 1 art assistant:

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figures with backgrounds

Posted on January 23, 2020January 23, 2020 Posted in art, art student, artwork, figure drawings, from photographs

In the past, I’ve done portraits and figures and tried to invent the background. Not always successfully, not always effectively. And not really understanding what the problem is/was.

Now I’m working on figures WITH backgrounds (from photos) that make some good compositional sense.

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resolved

Posted on January 11, 2020January 11, 2020 Posted in art, art student, artwork, figure drawings3 Comments

You know that procrastination you do about that thing that scares you? I joined a Meet Up group online that lists local live model figure drawing classes weekly. Week after week I received the notices. After week. After week. Then I made it a New Year’s resolution to go. Today I did. It was easy, perfect, relaxed, serious. Yay!

Figure class

Posted on December 8, 2019December 8, 2019 Posted in art, artwork, figure drawings1 Comment

Spent from 10-5 pm today in a class called “Expressive Figure Drawing” at the Miller School of Art. We had a wonderful model and lots of interesting challenges.

Here we were looking for the mass/gravity center of the model:

Here we were drawing then painting her face on top of a random collection of negative spaces

flexibility

Posted on November 18, 2019December 8, 2019 Posted in abstract art, art, artwork, figure drawings2 Comments

Here is an early version of this piece (October 2019).

And here is the same canvas today.

evolution

Posted on November 18, 2019December 8, 2019 Posted in art, art student, artwork, figure drawings4 Comments

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