Tuesday Male Model

Tuesday Male Model

Cloth with Fringe

Cloth with Fringe

To morrow

To morrow
Digital print on aluminum
40" x 24"

She should have died hereafter;

There would have been a time for such a word.

To morrow, and to morrow, and to morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last syllable of recorded time,

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle,

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more: it is a tale

Told by and idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

This sounds like the sort of thing a Scottish king from long ago would say who’s just been told his wife is dead and is having issues with a forest moving towards his castle while some guy who was untimely ripped from his mother’s womb wants to kill him. In fact, pretty much everyone in Scotland wants to kill him. No wonder he’s talkin’ crazy. But, crazy or not, those Scottish king guys sure are eloquent.

Wednesday Poses

Wednesday Poser
20" x 12"
Digital Print from original life drawing

Rough Sketch

Rough Sketch
Conté pencil on white paper

Upside-down again

Iglesia

Iglesia San Jose
20" x 16"
Digital print from original oil painting

Iglesia San Jose is located in Los Cerrillos, New Mexico, a small village 30 minutes southwest of Santa Fe, that used to be a thriving town of miners with 21 saloons and four hotels. Now it's a semi-ghost town with a small residential population and a dusty, barely-open bar named Mary's Bar. And a Catholic church, Iglesia San Jose (St. Joseph’s Church).

Several movies have been filmed in Los Cerrillos (The Small Hills), including Young Guns and Vampires. 

Poster version

Pillowed Face

Pillowed Face

Spikey Hair and Earrings

Spikey Hair and Earrings
Charcoal on newsprint

Strands of Hair

Stray Strands of Hair
20 x 16
Digital print from original charcoal drawing

Toppled Stool

Toppled Stool
Digital print from original charcoal drawing on white paper

In the Zone

In the Zone
Digital print from original charcoal on newsprint life drawing

In the zone. The nude model zone. Not me. Her. 

Fish Out of Water

A Fish Out of Water
24" x 30"
Digital print on aluminum

I stumbled across a black & white ink drawing that I had done years ago and decided to add color and turn it into a metal print. This was before I started attending regular life drawing sessions, therefore the figure isn't very realistic. Some might say it’s cartoonish. I prefer to call it Graphic Surrealism. That’s because cartoons are inexpensive, but Graphic Surrealism is very expensive. Especially on aluminum.

Storm Vision

Storm Vision
18 x 16
Digital print on aluminum from original ink wash, white chalk, and colored pencil on mat board

The contrast between the rough texture of the original rendering and the final version on high-gloss aluminum is going to be interesting. Maybe just to me.

Pig Tails

Pig Tails or Dog Ears
12" x 12"

I don't know if this hair-do should be categorized as pig tails or dog ears, but either way it complements a nice pose.

Strands of Hair

Another back pose with interesting hair. 

Cerrito Blanco

Cerrito Blanco
Metalprint (aluminum)

After a sketching trip to the village of Abiquiu I made an etching based on one of my charcoal sketches. After taking the etching through several phases, I scanned the most recent version and made an 18" x 22" digital version to be printed on aluminum.

Wine and Cigars in Abiquiu

Doug Coffin, wine, and Romeo y Julietta in Abiquiu
Digital print, 18 x 12 inches, on high-gloss aluminum, black wedge frame

To celebrate my birthday Robin and I recently spent the day in Abiquiu, a village just an hour north of Santa Fe, former home of Abiquiu's most famous resident, Georgia O’Keeffe, and current home of other awesome artists. After doing some sketching in the area and sharing a Monk’s Ale with Robin at Bode’s General Store, we enjoyed a birthday dinner at the Abiquiu Inn with artist friends Teresa Toole and Joe Hall. After dinner we went to artist Doug Coffin’s house for dessert, champagne, wine, and fine cigars. Robin and Teresa passed on the cigars while I discovered that more than half a cigar is more than I can handle. But, more to the point, it was an amazingly beautiful and satisfying day of geezerness celebration. And it inspired me to move on to some projects I’ve been thinking about. One of those projects was to make an etching of a charcoal drawing I had done recently of Doug in his studio. After taking the etching through several stages (soft ground, then a couple of stages of dry point) I scanned the printed proof, then created a digital print, shown above. Nothing says “artist” like high-gloss aluminum. But maybe that’s just me. 

Black Wrist Band

Black Wrist Band

After you’ve named so many poses things like “Reclining Woman,” “Seated Nude,” and “Kneeling Model,” it gets harder and harder to name drawings something descriptive. I mean it’s not like I can use names such as “Woman in Plaid Shirt,” or “Model in Blue Dress.” The Wednesday night model was thoughtful enough to wear a black wrist band. Thank you!

Mystical

St. Patrick’s Day

Last Tuesday night’s drawing group happened to fall on St. Patrick’s Day which also happened to be my birthday. Although the model wasn’t Irish, she did remind me of how St. Patrick was accused of seducing money from wealthy women for his church. And, coincidently or not, there were absolutely no snakes anywhere to be seen during the three hours of poses. Freakin’ mystical!

Hands

Hands of a Model
Charcoal on newsprint

After drawing the model for over two hours in various poses, with varying degrees of inaccuracy, I spent the last part of the last pose just drawing the model’s hands. Looks just like him, I think.

Waiting for a Table

Waiting for a Table at Harry’s Roadhouse
Metal print (aluminum)
14 x 11