Hi!
I have new works under “Paintings” and “Figure Drawings.” Thanks for looking.
Liz
Drip, drip, drop – it’s April
Category figure drawings
Happy New Year!
With big gratitude to DubSea Coffee, my show is over today. I got to hand a big check to WestSide Baby from the sales of six or seven pieces. Now I’m working on portraits and a 30-day challenge from Seattle Artist League (you can join, too!) I have new photos under the Painting and Drawing menu tabs. Thanks for looking.
Art Show
December 2021
My family celebrates Christmas, and it came early for me this year. An opportunity to show at a coffee shop/gallery in White Center! I have a lucky 13 pieces up for the whole of December. Show proceeds go to WestSide Baby whose mission is to supply equipment, diapers and clothing to children in need. Thanks to DubSea Coffee!
black & white week
The assignment this week in my ZOOM drawing class:
95% white, 5% black
95% black, 5% white
mid-greys only (no white or black)
and using all: black, white, grey
exaggerating
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:
stay tuned
I am going to do at least nine more of these! Excited by a new idea.
Figuary
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:
And here is my No. 1 art assistant:
figures with backgrounds
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.
resolved
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
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
"Not knowing how to do it is part of knowing how to do it." - Leon Kossoff 