2nd entry for Sept 20, 2015

These are a 15-minute and a 20-minute study, done with a Progresso woodless coloured pencil on 18 x 24" sheets of Camson drawing paper. I was out the other end of my music angst, which really only seems to manifest strongly in precise line drawings.

1st entry for Sept. 20, 2015

On the Sunday I went over to the Jam Factory Collective's session. Lina was working as our model, and pianist Tom Richards provided musical accompaniment.
Lina's work was solid as usual. The music reminded me of Jason Kenemy's session (Sun, May 3,) with free ranging (and often fairly loud) piano improv. Richard's musicianship was impressive, but I found that he wouldn't seem to stay with any melodic direction or genre for more than about 40 seconds. It was like musical channel-hopping, morphing from boogie-woogie  to classical to jazz and more, with random bits of sampled sounds thrown in to the mix here and there.
It was a more engaging set than I would have chosen for drawing, and I found the breadth of styles and rhythms was making it hard to bring focus on doing some pure line drawings. The music kept inviting me along different paths then Lina's edges. I was also thinking "a little less forte and a little more piano would be better for me...," and was using some improvised earplugs to bring the volume down. A piano can throw a lot of sound into a mid-size room if it's getting banged on with gusto.
But this is my usual busy music whine. The top two studies here are 2-minute ones, and the next two are 3 minutes each, where I was wrestling with keeping my personal tempo, which was at odds to the music. The next two are 5-minute studies, where I gave up and started scrawling in time to what I was hearing, but in a less pen-destroying tantrum-y snit way than some other occasions.
After that I switched to a pencil gesture with ink lines on top. as that isn't jammed by the music, and that  was much more comfortable. it is a 10-minute study.
These are all Pitt pen on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper.
And for all that I like to point out the challenge some musics throw at me, I have a sense that the getting messy with marks is beneficial in the long run, even if I'm not enjoying it in the moment.

2nd entry for Sept 10, 2015

These are three 10-minute studies at top, a 15-minute one 2nd from the bottom and a 20-minute one at the bottom.
The top one is Pitt pen on Canson Recycled Sketch paper; the next two have a gray Pitt brush pen and Koh-I-Noor Negro pencil on Canson Drawing paper, and the lower two are just the Koh-I-Noor on Canson Drawing paper. All are 18 x 18". The now awkwardly named Negro pencil is like a cross between Conte crayon and a coloured pencil, but fairly soft. It comes as a 5.6 mm rod that fits a bulky pencil holder, and is a bit brittle to use without the holder.

1st entry for Sept. 10, 2015

At the Collective drawing session on the Thursday, Richard and Wen were the volunteer models. these are a couple of 2-minute studies above, and a pair of 5-minute ones below, I think. All are Pitt pen on 18 x 18" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper.

Entry for Sept 8, 2015

The context at the Keyhole Sessions is generally young women in more eroticized or exotic dress, with some allusion to intimacy. It generally has a Suicide Girls feel to it.
The Keyhole Sessions have been down for a couple of years, but tried a remount at Artscape Young Place. Models Miss S, Carly Black, and Maliah Rayne did a series of poses over three hours.
I never get much of the billed sense of `debaucherousness', but that's okay. It is a challenge to add rope, makeup and multiple figures into a drawing session.

4th entry for Sept. 6, 2015

This is a 1.5 hour study of Maria on an 18 x 24" sheet of lightweight Stonehenge paper.
There is a blended underlayer of gray-green chalk pastel into which highlights were erased, and darker values added with a Koh-I-Noor Negro #2 drawing stick.

3rd entry for Sept 6, 2015

These are a 10-minute study, three 15-minute ones and a 20-minute one at bottom. The top one is Pitt pen on 18 x 24" Canson Recycled Sketch paper, and the others are Pitt pen and Derwent Aquitone pencil on lightweight 18 x 24" Stonehenge paper. I was trying to integrate something more loose and gestural with the line, but wasn't enamored of the texture of the Aquitone.

2nd entry for Sept 6, 2015

These are four 3-minute studies above and two 5-minute ones below. All are done with a Pitt pen on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper.

1st entry for Sept. 6, 2015

On the Sunday, Maria was working at the Jam Factory Collective's session, and these are some 1-minute and 2-minute studies, done with a Pitt pen on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper.

3rd entry for Aug 30, 2015

It's here, today, Saturday the 12th, and tomorrow - the Queen West Art Crawl runs 11 am to 6 pm both days in Trinity-Bellwoods Park. I'll be displaying a selection of recent figure drawings in booth M42. The booth is located on the northern curve of the big circle path in the park. Hope to see you there.

These are two 10-minute studies and two 15-minute ones. The top one is Pitt pen on Canson Recycled Sketch paper; the next one is Pitt pen ond a gray pen on lightweight stonehenge. The other two are grey pen and a black prismacolour stick on lightweight stonehenge. All are on 18 x 24" sheets of paper.

2nd entry for Aug 30, 2015

It's coming up tomorrow - the Queen West Art Crawl runs Saturday and Sunday, Sept 12th & 13th in Trinity-Bellwoods Park. I'll be displaying a selection of recent figure drawings in booth M42. The booth is located on the north-west curve of the big circle path in the park. Hope to see you there.

These are some 3-minute and 5-minute studies, all done with Pitt pen on 18 x 24" sheets of Canson Recycled Sketch paper.