The Week in Figure Drawings

Alison, longer studies. Gerrard Art Studio session, July 29, 2018. Oil-based pencil and willow charcoal on paper, 18 x 24"

Not every drawing day is a good one. These are four 5-minute studies above, and two 10-minute ones below. It was not a good...

On the Friday evening, I got out to part of the open session at the TSA. Carmina was working that night, and I was continuing to exp...

Lighting was limited, and was switched from underlighting to sidelight partway through the evening. Kat, a friend of the Re...

These are all roughly 50-minute studies, done with water-soluble graphite washes on 18 x 24" sheets of heavy Maidstone paper. ...

These are some 10-minute studies also using the warm gray Copic gray scale markers and a Pitt medium black liner pen in places in...

Those of you who visit here semi-regularly have no doubt noticed the sudden lack of my incessant postings. A couple of game...

These are some 15-minute studies, plus a 10-minute one that ended the night.  For the top three I tried a paper I hadn't us...

These are 5-minute studies, done on 24 x 36" sheets of Durotone paper.   Durotone is slicker than the Maidstone I've been usin...

These are three 20-minute studies of C-   , and a 15-minute one at the bottom. All are on sheets of 90 lb Maidstone paper. The top two ...

On the Sunday, I went the TSA to do some sketching during the day. L-  was working.  On an oversight, I forgot to pack my little box of va...

These are a 15-minute  study above, and two 20-minute ones of K -   below. All are done with Nobel hard compressed charcoal on 18 x 24...

On the Monday night, D-  was at the Ralph Thornton Centre.  I had done some research into the mystery charcoal and determined that it wa...