2nd entry for Jan 27, 2012

(Thanks to everyone who came and visited my open house - it was great to talk with you all. Keep a look out for the next one.)

These are a 10-minute and a 15-minute study above, both of which are done with Nobel hard compressed charcoal on 18 x 24" Canson Sketch paper. Below are two 20-minute studies done with the same charcoal on 22 x 30" sheets of Maidstone paper. 
The lowest one is a 10-minute study with U-Art hard compressed charcoal on a cheap 18 x 24" bond paper.