Sketch to Painting to Canvas

Experimenting with techniques for transforming a charcoal sketch from the Tuesday evening sketch group into a painterly image on canvas, using multiple trips between Photoshop and Painter.

A combination of bold, graphic drawing style with bold and varied colors play into an unintentional reflection of sorts of some of my major influences: T.C. Cannon, John Nieto, and Lucian Freud.    

Another cropped version. Final canvas size of the full figure will be approximately 30 x 40 inches.

Drawing Session 2, Month 2

Actress, performer, dancer, and with-child. Our pregnant model returned for sketch session #2. She plans to model each month of her pregnancy and we get to document the progress. I think a book of drawings after the ninth month would make a nice memento.

Two-minute warmup drawings.

Love the easy-to-draw haircut.

Thinking about motherhood, I'll bet.

  

Newspaper Sketch: Wine Festival

A local wine festival photo in today's Sunday paper provides the model for my almost-daily-graphite-wash sketch.

Notice the extremely subtle and artsy hint of a wine glass on the right. Brilliant. OK, I ran out of room on the watercolor pad, but these kinds of lucky artsy accidents happen to artsy people. Or so I hear.