Monday, June 30, 2014

Woman With Umbrella



Woman With Umbrella
From original ink wash drawing



Woman With Umbrella
Detail

Friday, June 27, 2014

Tuesday Sketches

A few sketches from last Tuesday night’s weekly drawing session. A dozen artists, one model, two dozen Dunkin Donuts, wine. Reminds me, in a weird way, of the short-lived weekly art sessions in my southern Louisiana home town when I was a teenager. But without the artists, models, and refreshments. I’m sure it's different now. Ha.




     

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Partially Draped

Etching artist Leslie arranged a special 3-hour pose last night at Argos, the gallery/etching studio where our Tuesday night drawing group meets. These specially scheduled poses are limited to six artists, so it's a bit different from the larger groups on Tuesday night. The artist that organizes the special event gets to set the pose and gets to choose their location in the room. Everyone else sets up wherever they can. This pose called for a partially draped model.


Partially Draped
Charcoal on white paper
24" x 18"

      

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Influences

Artists are always influenced by other artists. Those influences don’t have to come from famous artists. During our drawing group’s Skin Deep exhibit last March I bought one of the drawings by one of our favorite regular artist attendees, George Donoho. As I organized a stack of drawings the other day, I unwrapped the Donoho drawing I’d bought and realized there's another drawing on the back side of the one I bought. After scanning the drawing I thought it would be interesting to base my own drawing on the Donoho drawing.


Young Woman
26" x 18"

The original Donoho drawing

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Sunday, June 22, 2014

Woman on a Pillow

Another print on aluminum made from an earlier drawing, charcoal on newsprint.

Woman on a Pillow
Digital print on aluminum
Black float frame (not shown)
16" x 24"

Friday, June 20, 2014

Thinking

A digital print made from one of the life drawings in the previous post. 


Thinking
Digital print on paper
40" x 30"


Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Drawing Then Maria’s

One of our favorite models returned last night and provided a variety of great poses. About a dozen artists attended. After three hours of drawing, pal Bob and I always stop by Maria’s Restaurant to have a beer with chips and salsa.  

Which makes for a quintessential Santa Fe Tuesday evening. But maybe that’s just me.



Thinking
Detail, charcoal on white paper


Thinking
Charcoal on white paper


On Her Side
Charcoal on white paper

Quick Pose
Charcoal on white paper

Bandaged Foot
Charcoal on white paper

Arched Back
Detail, charcoal on white paper

Arched Back
Charcoal on white paper
Model in Profile
Charcoal on newsprint















Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Brunette

Brunette
Digital print on metallic paper
28" x 30"

Monday, June 16, 2014

Color Abstraction



Detail from a new digital canvas in production.

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Braided Pony Tail



Model with Braided Pony Tail
Charcoal on paper


Thursday, June 5, 2014

Recent Models

Charcoal drawings from recent Tuesday night life drawing sketchpads. 


Sleeping Beauty
Charcoal on newsprint


Pondering While Posing
Charcoal on Canson paper


Zeus
Charcoal on newsprint



Leaning
Charcoal on newsprint

Model’s Stool
Charcoal on newsprint

Huddle-up
Charcoal on newsprint




Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Florentine Ambience

Finally got around to sending this image to the lab for a digital print on aluminum.


Florentine Ambience
24" x 24"