Figure Drawing for March 31, 2010

40 Minute Pose

Hey, Kids!  A figure drawing!

Once more, the color on black paper gives a neon look to the picture, which makes the drawing seem cooler than it really is.  :-)

This was done with pastel on 12" x 18" black Strathmore 500 paper.

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Figure Drawing for March 26, 2010

15 Minute Pose

Inflicting more figure drawings...

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

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5 Minute Pose

Just for fun, here are the warm-up drawings with the same model...

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

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5 Minute Pose

Second verse, same as the first: This was also done with charcoal and carbon pencil on 8-1/2" x 11" gray cardstock.

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Figure Drawing for March 22, 2010

15 Minute Pose

Well, it's time again to inflict another figure drawing...

This was done with ballpoint pen, black watercolor, and white acrylic paint on 8-1/2" x 11" gray card stock.

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Figure Drawing for March 19, 2010

20 Minute Pose

Here are a couple quick paintings of the previous model...

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

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20 Minute Pose

Second verse, same as the first: This was also done with black and white acrylic paint on gessoed 7" x 10" illustration board, too.

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Figure Drawing for March 16, 2010

40 Minute Pose

Here's yet another figure drawing...

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white chalk on 12" x 18" gray bogus paper.

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Figure Drawing for March 12, 2010

15 Minute Pose

Here's another picture...

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

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Figure Drawing for March 9, 2010

40 Minute Pose

Oopsie!  I guess I'm falling behind schedule...  I'll try to keep on schedule a bit more in the future of 2-3 postings/picture per week.  No guarantees--explicit or implied in this proclamation.   :-)

This was done with watercolor on 11" x 15"  Stonehenge (#110) paper.

Also, as a bit of Trivia, this painting was on the front page of  The La Crosse Tribune as part of a cover story about nude models through the UW-L figuration class I go to when it it offered.  Here is the picture from the website (used on the front page of the paper edition, as well).

And, yes, that is my hand in the picture.  :-)

For those mildly interested, here is a link to the story from the paper.  I'm not sure how long the link will be active, but here it is currently:

http://www.lacrossetribune.com/news/article_4ee87e9b-4383-564e-93c9-b6e4bda5da0c.html 

As an added note: I just realized the story was posted one year and one day to the date of publication -- March 8th, 2009.  Rats!  I would have posted this yesterday if only I had known.  :-)

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Figure Drawing for March 1, 2010

30 Minute Pose

What the--?  It's March already?  What the heck happened to January and February?  Tempus Fugeddaboudit, I suppose...

Anyhoo, here's yet another semi-weekly post.

This was done with white chalk on 12" x 18" black Strathmore paper.

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Figure Drawing for February 23, 2010

20 Minute Pose

Greetings!  Here's yet another figure drawing...

This was done with ball-point pen, watercolor and white acrylic paint on 12" x 18" brown bogus paper.

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Figure Drawing for February 18, 2010

15 Minute Pose

Here's another new posting...

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

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Figure Drawing for February 12, 2010

20 Minute Pose

Greetings!  Here's yet another figure drawing for the week.

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, and white charcoal on 9" x 12" Canson Mi-Teintes.

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Figure Drawing for February 8, 2010

20 Minute Pose

Hey, I'm back!  Which is mildly amusing because today's picture is of a back and, well, you see... OK, I guess it wasn't all THAT mildly amusing.

Looks like my 2-3 weeks off turned into more like 6-8 weeks instead.  Busy, busy, busy.  And, of course, I have nothing much to show for it.  Oh, well, back to the salt mines.  :-)

I'm gonna change things up a little bit at the Arty-Farty Blog, mostly by posting a "mere" 2-3 times a week for a while.  I have lots of other things I'm trying to get done, so we'll see how that goes.

Anyhoo, enough talkin' and more chalkin'... You see, 'cuz it's charcoal and chalk... Oh, nevermind.

This picture was done with charcoal and white chalk on 8-1/2" x 11" gray cardstock.

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Merry Happy Everything Year!

Greetings!  Well, with the HOLI-DAZE and all, I'm gonna be takin' a bit of a hiatus with the blog for the next 2-3 weeks.  I may change things up a bit after the new year... we'll see.

'Til then, Happy Bruce Year!  (Not the best pun in the world, but it will just have to do.)  :-)

This picture of Bruce Lee  was done from a picture in a magazine, was done in about 2 hours and is black-and-white acrylic on a 9" x 12" gessoed hardboard.  How accurate it turned out, I'll leave to you.  :-)

Happy Merry New ChristmaHannaKwanza Year!

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Figure Drawing for December 23, 2009

20 Minute Pose

Here's another daily figure drawing...  Once again, pastels on black paper look kinda cool and have a neon-kind of look to them.  However, they never quite shoot right with the camera.  Oh, well...

This was done with pastel on 8-1/2" x 11" black cardstock.

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Figure Drawing for December 22, 2009

30 Minute Pose

Here's another figure drawing for the day...

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

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Figure Drawing for December 21, 2009

20 Minute Pose

Another figure drawing.  Well, figure painting, I suppose...

This was done with watercolor on 11" x 15" Stonehenge (#110) paper.

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Figure Drawing for December 20, 2009

40 Minute Pose

Here's yet another figure drawing... Color pastels on black paper give that neat-o Velvet Elvis effect and makes the colors seems a lot brighter.

This was done with pastel on 12" x 18" Strathmore 500 black charcoal paper.

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Figure Drawing for December 19, 2009

20 Minute Pose

Here is yet another figure drawing...

This was done with watercolor on 10" x 15" Canson Montval (#110) rough watercolor paper.

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Figure Drawing for December 18, 2009

40 Minute Pose

Here is another figure drawing...

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

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Figure Drawing for December 17, 2009

15 Minute Pose

Something mildly amusing to me...

It sometimes seems that I get the same amount of work done no matter how long the session goes--and now I have PROOF!.  In this series--all from the same model session--each pose seems to have gotten the same amount of work done on the page, despite the length of the pose time.  Heck, the shortest pose (on top) seems to have gotten the most done on the page.  Now, granted, I was trying to work hard on getting the face right on each of them so I had to shift focus a bit on the first pose, and the face was at an odd angle for the bottom one, so I had to go back and correct my drawing quite a few times as it progressed.

But, as I reviewed the work for the evening, it made me think of Xeno's Paradox: No matter how much I completed, there was still halfway to go.  Sigh...

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, carbon stick, and white chalk on 12" x 18" gray bogus paper.

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20 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, carbon stick, and white chalk on 12" x 18" gray bogus paper.

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30 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, carbon stick, and white chalk on 12" x 18" gray bogus paper.

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45 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal, carbon pencil, carbon stick, and white chalk on 12" x 18" gray bogus paper.  (The odd bit in the middle of the chest was where I was intending to draw her hand, but ran out of time.  Sigh.)

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Figure Drawing for December 16, 2009

20 Minute Pose

Here's yet another figure drawing.  Ballpoint pen and watercolor may seem like an unlikely pair, but they work together pretty well from time-to-time.

This was done with a ballpoint pen and watercolor on 8-1/2" x 11" cardstock.

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Figure Drawing for December 15, 2009

15 Minute Pose

Here is another figure drawing... I sort of like the vague, abstracted quality of the picture.

This was done with watercolor on 11" x 15" Stonehenge (#110) paper.

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Figure Drawing for December 14, 2009

15 Minute Pose

Here are two figure drawings from the same session.

This was done with charcoal and white chalk on 12" x 18" gray bogus paper.

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20 Minute Pose

This was done with charcoal and white chalk on 18" x 24" gray bogus paper.

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Figure Drawing for December 13, 2009

30 Minute Pose

Here's today's figure drawing.  The model was lit with a red light on the left-side, and a blue light on the right-side.  The picture shot a little dark and adjusting the levels made the image a little gritty.  Oh, well.

I like the effect of color pastel on black paper--it makes it the colors seem almost fluorescent... and, since people are used to seeing dark lines on light paper, seeing it all reversed makes the picture stand out.

This was done with pastel on 9" x 12" black, Strathmore Artagain paper.

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Figure Drawing for December 12, 2009

15 Minute Pose

Yet another figure painting...

This was done with ballpoint pen and watercolor on cream-colored, 8-1/2" x 11" card stock.

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