Took an hour and a half out of my evening, tonight, to finish this alla prima still-life study. There is a lot more I could do to this but the set-up is taking up some valuable real estate in my studio which I will be needing for work, tomorrow. So, I did what I could and then put it all away.


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Last day of school was today. I had mostly finished with the final pose on Wednesday but did take some time to really look at it and very slightly tweak a few things. Overall, I think it's an OK drawing - it's technically good but it doesn't 'speak' to me. I got pretty bored with it early on and didn't invest much in it. But it's yet another piece ( Read more... )

This week is my last week of class and we've been working on a four-session long pose. I finished yesterday and still have Friday to do some studies on color or whatever else I want. Which is usually how it works. I can't seem to maintain any interest in a drawing after about three sessions. Need to work on that.

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Today's beginning on a two-session long pose drawing...


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I haven't been very good about posting drawings here to LJ lately. I think it has a lot to do with just being overly busy... FB makes it so easy to post and dash.

In any case, here is the latest from class:


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Today was my first day back to class for this quarter - Foundations of Figure Drawing III. Same six people, which is outstanding as I like them all. I got snaked on the monitor job, however, by my buddy Manuel. Which, as it turns out, is fine. I have a lot of Fridays this quarter that I will either be absent or I will leave early. Even though the ( Read more... )

I spent the morning finishing my final project for this quarter's Foundations of Figure Drawing class. I've been dreading it because, normally, I don't much like self-portraits. But I applied some Renaissance aesthetic to it and lo! A self-portrait that I actually like.


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I have been very bad about posting my school sketches here; mostly because I post them on fb and then forget. But I'm super proud of this particular sketch... this is the end of term long-pose sketch. Today was the third session and Friday will be the fourth and last session:


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Since I'm mainly doing painting using the indirect method, it's hard to explain to people who haven't been following along at home just exactly all the steps that go into creating a painting based on the methods and materials of 1500s Milan, Italy. So I started working on wee examples by first applying gesso to six small canvases. After that, I ( Read more... )

I started class for this quarter last week. I'm taking Foundations of Figure Drawing II and Beginning Portrait Drawing. The Foundations instructor is new to the school and his approach is much different than the previous Foundations instructor. For starters, he doesn't art all over my stuff (i.e., draw on my drawing) which I very much appreciate. ( Read more... )