Five-minute warmup drawings. |
Phil is in pretty good shape. I guess modeling is a good way to workout. |
The face isn't a good likeness at all. But like Alan Iverson famously said, "It's practice. We talkin' 'bout practice!" |
Five-minute warmup drawings. |
Phil is in pretty good shape. I guess modeling is a good way to workout. |
The face isn't a good likeness at all. But like Alan Iverson famously said, "It's practice. We talkin' 'bout practice!" |
Plaza Dancer, 40 x 20 |
The digital painting started as an iPhone photo, taken on the Santa Fe plaza during Indian Market. |
Chair Days, 18 x 24 |
The gallery wrap edges contain the quote (left edge) and the quote attribution (right edge). |
A couple of warm-up poses. |
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I wanted to rework the face, but on to another pose. |
Bullfighter, San Miguel de Allende. |
Canvas detail. |
More canvas detail. |
Felt tip pen (Sharpie) on white Canson paper. |
Felt tip pen on Canson white paper. |
Drawing starts with five five-minute warmup poses. |
After a five-minute break the pose changes to 45-minute poses, with a five-minute break in the middle. 45 minutes is usually enough time to do a decent drawing. Or even a bad one. |
The pose timed-out before I could get to the feet. Most starving artists can't draw feet. Otherwise they'd be rich and famous. |
Drawings don't have to be accurate. Or even technically competent. At least that's what I'm choosing to believe. |
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
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Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And moan the expense of many a vanished sight: |
A couple of sketches from an older sketchbook, probably around the mid-80s. |
Many models, many poses. |
The attendees put their drawings on the wall during a break. The multi-levle model stand, empty now, held 9 or 10 models at a time. |
40 x 14 inches. The maroon border is the gallery wrap edge that wraps around the stretcher bars. |
Detail images above and below shows the painterly effect achieved after multiple round-trips between Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. |
The dark border area is a “gallery wrap” edge that wraps around the stretcher frame. The scene is from a place just north of Abiquiu, NM, where the Chama River winds through the high desert. |
Detail above and below shows the impressionistic style. |
The image started as three vertical photos, stitched together in Photoshop, then multiple round-trips between Photoshop and Corel Painter, utilizing filters and manual painting techniques. |
My inner Lucian Freud is struggling to come out. |
Not really a portrait, but sort of. |