Old Movie Sketch

I recorded an old, classic movie, paused the recording, and sketched from the TV screen. Charcoal and white chalk on a gray paper pad. The sketch was shot with an iPhone, holding the sketch pad up to a floor lamp for light. Bad lighting or brilliant art direction? I choose the latter.

Suspicion

Giclee Print

An experimental color print based on a charcoal drawing from last Tuesday's drawing group.

Tuesday Evenings at Argos
Giclee print on watercolor paper, 24 x22.

Feet

One more sketch from last Tuesday's drawing session. Feet get ignored a lot in drawings (at least in most of my drawings), mainly because the pose usually ends before I get to them. This time I managed to include all two of them. Progress!

Drawing Without Golda

A sad night at the Tuesday evening drawing group. Gallery dog Golda, a regular at the gallery and devoted companion of gallery owner Eric, passed away during the past week after a brief illness. We all missed her sweet presence and friendly greetings. 

Warmup drawing. 

Another warmup drawing.

Several drawings of longer poses on this Tuesday night were really bad. Embarrassingly so. I was lucky to end with a couple of drawings (above and below) that were decent enough to post. 

Life drawing tip: Before posting a drawing to a blog, crop out the part that you messed up (the legs and feet in this example).