The colored pieces are oil pastel on crinkled brown paper (paper is handmade, but not by me).
The drawing is graphite on white drawing paper.
This model was so relaxed in her body, she continued to pose--in reclining poses--during breaks. A pleasure to draw.
All very nice. I like the graphite for obvious reasons.
ReplyDeleteI've been doing some work with colored pencils just to get familiar. I definitely need to get freed up so an oil pastel is soon in the works.
Thanks, Pierre. These pieces are intended for a little sketchbook that I'm sending to the Brooklyn Art Museum for this cool exhibit of sketchbooks from all over. I think if you google it, you could sign up and do one too.
ReplyDeleteAlso, if you have any little ones you can enlist, it would make a fun project for young kids.
ReplyDeleteStopped being lazy and googled it myself:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject
all great!
ReplyDeleteoil pastels is good work,
elasticize ...
and the model is really
good with posing ...
This is great!
I'm so drawn to the bottom on the bottom. That's lovely. (Ha ha, you two guess wrong?)
ReplyDeleteDenise, thank you! The model was good beyond belief. Who poses on their breaks?
ReplyDeleteAH, only two and a half puns in the first sentence? Glad you like it. (And good thing I don't bet money on these predictions.)
BTW, I just got up to take a peek at California election results. Mostly, yay!
She sure looks relaxed in the top 3. In the 4th, some alarm?
ReplyDeleteBoth reclining figures are the strongest. The diagonal line from corner to corner in the color study and the exaggeration in the pencil sketch
ReplyDeleteBanjo, not alarm but drama. This was a one minute pose (a gesture pose)and models are encouraged to move around a lot and get into positions that they can hold for one minute, but could never hold for 5 minutes.
ReplyDeleteThe other poses were much longer, and much more relaxed.
PA, I love the reclining figures and the backs; they're the most fun for me to paint. I did more today, but I won't post them til the light improves (it's very overcast/rainy today. Beautiful weather, but not so great for photographing colors even semi-accurately).
I can't decide if I like the second one or the last one the most. But they are all beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Margaret. You're a terrific audience, and an even better writer.
ReplyDeleteJean, thank you for your recent comment re my mom's passing. Heartfelt thanks and appreciation, very sweet of you.
ReplyDeleteKen Mac, I am so sorry for your loss. I am a mother and I've lost my mother. I know this is a very hard thing.
ReplyDeleteI like your freedom, the form are so free in movment
ReplyDeleteThank you, Laura. These are small and done very fast, so, free indeed.
ReplyDeleteI love all your sketches but my favourite one is the graphite one for the Brooklyn Art Museum sketchbook-the grey/black lends a mysterious quality to the figure.
ReplyDeleteWhat sort of camera do you use to take your daily pictures?
Thank you, Najma. I'm using a Nikon D60, now. When I travel, I use a much smaller camera, a Nikon that is about the size of a deck of cards. I think it's mainly about not using flash.
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