The Week in Figure Drawings

These are a 10-minute and a 15-minute pose that ended the evening with S-  .  The 10-minute one is done with a hard Nobel charcoal sti...

These are a couple of 25-minute studies, working with partial scrim coverage of M-   .

These are some 3-minute studies, where a sheer piece of fabric was hanging in front of M-   . It was challenging, working with t...

On the Monday M-  came to work for me and a couple of other artists, and we explored a couple of ideas. Suspension was the f...

On the Sunday afternoon, I was trying out a couple of experiments in using a dark charcoal underlay, then drawing with soft graphite, to c...

These are a 5-minute study above, and three 10-minute ones below. They are all done with hard compressed charcoal on an 18 x 24" sh...

This was a 2 and 1/2 hour study  L-   , using hard compressed charcoal on 22 x 30" 90 lb Maidstone paper. I did a bit of light brushi...

These are a 15-minute study above, and a 20-minute one below. both done with hard compressed Nobel charcoal. The upper one is on 18 x 24...

From the top, these are a 15-minute, a 20-minute and another 15-minute study. The top two are on 22 x 30" sheets of Maidstone paper...

These are two 10-minute studies, and s 25-minute one of D-    below.  All of them are on 18 x 24" sheets of the Canson Sketch paper ...

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...

These are a 10-minute study at top, three 20-minute ones, and a 10-minute one at the bottom. All were done with hard compressed U-Art c...

These are three 15-minute studies above, on various Canson papers in the 19 x 25" range. The lower one is a 20-minute study, using ...

On the Friday L-   was working. She was someone I wasn't familiar with. These are 10-minute studies. In preparation for a project I d...

These are a 15-minute study above and a 25-minute one below.  The top one is done with hard compressed charcoal on 18 x 24"cartridge ...

These are a 20-minute study above, and a 15-minute one below.  These were done with the same U-art/ Nobel charcoal combination, but these ...

The study above was 15 minutes, and the one below was 20 minutes, but I worked on each during the breaks that followed them. Each had a li...

On the Sunday, B-   was working, and these are 1-minute studies of his trademark very athletic gesture poses. These are done with charco...