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.

     

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"

      

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

Leg Shadows

Leg Shadows
Charcoal on white paper

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"