Figure Drawing for November 26, 2009

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

In honor of Thanksgiving, here is a portrait I painted of my boss, the Wife, from a photograph.  It's probably one of the best paintings I've done so far (the picture seems a little dark and doesn't really capture all the shading, etc.).  And I don't think I did too badly on the the Boss part, either--I married WAAAYYYYYY above my station.  :-)

As mushy as it all sounds, I am very thankful for my wife, two daughters, the rest of my extended family, friends, and almost everything else.  Huzzah!  :-)

The painting took about 3 hours and is approximately 7" x 14".  It is black-and-white, water-miscible oil paint on gessoed hard board.

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Figure Drawing for November 25, 2009

20 Minute Pose

Well, time for another figure drawing for the day...

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white chalk on 8-1/2" x 11" toned card stock.

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Figure Drawing for November 24, 2009

5 Minute Pose

Here is another figure drawing for the day...

This was a 5 minute warm-up, done with charcoal and carbon pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" card stock.

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Figure Drawing for November 23, 2009

30 Minute Pose

Here's another figure drawing...

This was done with charcoal and carbon pencil on 11" x 14" Strathmore paper.

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Figure Drawing for November 22, 2009

20 Minute Pose

Here's another figure drawin'...

This was done with charcoal and carbon pencil on 11" x 14" Strathmore drawing paper.

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Figure Drawing for November 21, 2009

30 Minute Pose

This one didn't turn out quite right.  There was some extreme foreshortening, which I botched up but good.  From the pelvis up, I think it looks OK, and the pelvis down looks OK, but together it is just all wrong, methinks.  I guess they can't all be winners.

Oh, well.  Live and learn.  Well, live, anyways.

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white charcoal, on 12" x 18" gray bogus paper.  (See?  No "Bogus, man!" comment this time.  I'm getting marginally better.)

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Figure Drawing for November 30, 2009

20 Minute Pose

Here are a series of drawings from the same drawing session.

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white charcoal on 12" x 18" gray bogus (Bogus, man!!!) paper.

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30 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal and carbon pencil, as well as white charcoal on 12" x 18" gray bogus (Bogus, man!) paper.  Sigh, I really have to stop typing that EVERY time...

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20 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white charcoal on gray, 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock.

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Figure Drawing for November 19, 2009

15 Minute Pose

Here are two figure drawings from the same drawing session.

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white charcoal on gray bogus (Bogus, man!) paper.  It measures about 12" x 12".

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30 Minute Pose

The following pose was rather contorted and drawn from a slightly odd angle, hence it looks a little... weird and abstracted.

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white charcoal on 12" x 18" gray bogus (Bogus, man!--and, yes, I'll pro'lly do that joke almost EVERY time I mention bogus paper).

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Figure Drawing for November 18, 2009

15 Minute Pose

Another figure drawing...

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white charcoal on 8-1/2" x 11" gray cardstock.

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Figure Drawing for November 17, 2009

2 Minute Pose

Well, here are more postings of more drawings...  These were all done in the same drawing session and are pretty much just sketches this time around.

This was done with a carbon pencil on white 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock.

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2 Minute Pose

Pretty much the same as above.  This one was also done with charcoal and carbon pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" gray card stock.

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10 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal and carbon pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" gray cardstock.

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Figure Drawing for November 16, 2009

20 Minute Pose

And here is another figure drawing...

Done with charcoal and carbon pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" gray card stock.

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Figure Drawing for November 15, 2009

30 Minute Pose

Here is another picture from the same Figure Drawing Session as the previous one.

This was done with charcoal on Stonehenge (#140) paper, measuring about 15" x 11".

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Figure Drawing for November 14, 2009

40 Minute Pose

Here is another posting...

This was done with Charcoal on Stonehenge paper, and measures about 11" x 15".

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Figure Drawing for November 13, 2009

20 Minute Pose

Hey, it's Friday the 13th!  And, of course, things have been crazy-busy, so I'm a little late posting this.  Oh, well...  This is from the same figure session as the previous two.

This painting was done with black and white acrylic on 7" x 10" gessoed illustration board.

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Figure Drawing for November 12, 2009

20 Minute Pose

Here is another black and white painting from the same session as the previous one.  

This painting was done with black and white acrylic paint on 7" x 10" gessoed illustration board.

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Figure Drawing for November 11, 2009

15 Minute Pose

Boring history: I had several sheets of illustration board which I was going to cut down to 8" x 10" and do some paintings with them.  Unfortunately, when the printer cut them, they were closer to 7" x 10" and they wouldn't fit into a 8" x 10" picture frame, as planned.  Rats!  The boards sat on the shelf for nearly a decade--too oddly-sized for my needs--before I dusted 'em off, gessoed 'em up, and thought to use them to do painting studies.  Turns out they were useful after all.  The Island of Misfit Painting Supports, I suppose...

This painting is a little impressionistic.  But, if you squint just right, you may be able to see a figure somewhere in those mass of brush strokes.

This was done with black and white acrylic paint on an approximate 7" x 10" gessoed illustration board.

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Figure Drawing for November 10, 2009

30 Minute Pose

Here's another drawing...

This was done with chalk pastel and charcoal on 11" x 14" Strathmore drawing paper.

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Figure Drawings for November 9, 2009

20 Minute Pose

Greetings!  Here are a few more drawings...

This drawing was done in about 20 minutes with charcoal and white chalk on 12" x 18" Gray Bogus paper (BOGUS, man!), which is a rougher newsprint-type of paper.

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15 Minute Pose

This painting was done in about 15 minutes.  It was done with watercolor on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock. 

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2 Minute Poses

And here are a couple warm-up sketches of the same model.

These were done on 8-1/2" x 11" card stock with ball-point pen.

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Figure Drawing For November 8, 2009

15 Minute Pose

Second verse, same as the first.  This is a drawing of the same model as the previous ones and, again, about a 15 minute pose.

And, again, this is about 11" x 14", chalk pastel on Strathmore drawing paper.

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Figure Drawing for November 7, 2009

15 Minute Pose

This is a drawing of the same model and session as the previous warm-ups from yesterday.  It was about a 15 minute session, so I kept things quick and loose.

This is approximately 11" x 14", chalk pastel on Strathmore drawing paper.

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Figure Drawing for November 6, 2009

2 Minute Pose

Greetings!  Well, between the reformatting of my computer taking a little longer than expected (which it always seems to do, for some reason--just once, can't everything go as planned?) and my getting ready for work have both conspired to make my postings a little later for Thursday's post, I'll balance that by making my Friday post earlier.  Karma, baby!

Both drawings are just warm-ups, which usually take about 2 minutes.  They were each done on 8-1/2" x. 11", black cardstock with white charcoal pencil.  Although the pictures make it look like it was done with some sort of neon blue pencil or something... which makes the pictures look much cooler than they really are.  Sigh...

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Figure Drawing for November 5, 2009

30 Minute Pose

This was done with watercolor on 11" x 15" Waterford (#140) watercolor paper.

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Figure Drawing for November 4, 2009

40 Minute Pose

Hola!  I'm starting to organize and photograph some of the drawings and paintings I have accumulated over the course of a couple years and beginning to post 'em.  So, for better or worse, there's plenty more were this came from...

This was done on 12" x 18" Strathmore 500 Series Charcoal paper with charcoal and white chalk.

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Figure Drawing for November 3, 2009

30 Minute Pose

Well, time to get started... I plan on posting pics here semi-regularly so check back often. Now, without further ado...

This was done on brown bogus paper (the equivalent of a brown paper bag) with watercolor and white charcoal pencil and measures about 18"x12".

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Halloween... or should I say Helloween?

This year, my Boss (the Wife) suggested doing up a Castle for a Halloween decoration for the yard.  Um, OK...

4 sheets of 4' x 8' plywood bolted together and in the process of being painted out in our garage.  The castle's size is about 16' wide x 8-1/2' tall.

Smiling for the camera... Now, GET BACK TO PAINTING so I can get this darn thing out before Halloween is done.

And here it is in the yard with a couple weeks to spare...  (NOTE: I didn't make the werewolf or witch.)

I also decided to do up some 2' wide x 3' tall Tombstones (What do you want on your Tombstone? :-) for myself, my wife, and a friend just for fun.  At first, it was just gonna be a fake Victorian portrait on the Tombstone, but we all decided to go with a Zombie portrait, instead.

Here's mine--it's OK, but it looks like bit like an angry Harry Potter to me.  The missing part of the scalp could even be said to resemble (unintentionally) the lightening bolt scar.  Sigh.

Thank goodness I changed the style of my glasses about 15 years back, which were round at the time... otherwise it would have been kinda sad--as if I were some sort of middle-age Harry Potter wannabe.  Again, sigh...

Here is a portrait of the boss-lady.  I'm mostly happy with this one but, of course, it can **ALWAYS** be much better.  Someday, with practice...

This one also turned out mostly alright.  The portrait part turned out not too bad, but the collar and tie on the shirt look a little rumpled.  It reminds me vaguely of Rodney Dangerfield.  Oh, well...  Again, if they are to to be outside before Halloween, I suppose they'll have to be done for now.  :-)

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