Woman

Drawn from life.

Charcoal on 18" x 24" paper.

Reclining Figure

Drawn from life.

Charcoal on 18" x 24" paper.

Woman in Charcoal

Drawn from life.

Charcoal on 18" x 24" paper.

Seated Woman/Charcoal

Drawn from life.

Charcoal on 18" x 24" paper.

Mirror Image in Black and White

Drawn from life.

Charcoal, pastel and graphite on about 18" x 22" Coventry paper.

For this self-portrait and the one in the previous post, I used a small hand-mirror, so the images I saw changed a lot as I worked.

Figure in Charcoal

Drawn from life.

Charcoal on 18"x 24" paper.

Woman Looking Right

Drawn from life, charcoal on 18" x 24" paper.

Woman Holding Her Head

Drawn from life, on Friday.

Charcoal on 18" x 24" paper.

Head

Drawn from life, this week.

Charcoal on 18" x 24" paper.

Woman in Charcoal

Drawn from life.

Charcoal on 18" x 24" paper.

Woman Looking Down

Drawn from life.

Charcoal on 18" x 24" paper.

Woman Looking Down

Drawn from life, last week.

Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24".

Seated Woman with Rectangular Tattoo

Drawn from life, last week.

Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24".

Seated Woman in Charcoal

Drawn from life, in Spring.

Charcoal on 18" x 24" paper.

Woman Sleeping in Chair

Drawn from life, last Spring.

Charcoal on paper, about 7" x 12".

PEOPLE WATCH:

Still a good day for a swim, if you don't mind the chance of thundersorms.

Sleeping Woman 2

Drawn from life, last Spring.

Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24".

NATURE UPDATE:

Good day for a swim.

Sleeping Woman

Drawn from life, in Spring. 

Charcoal on paper, roughly 12" x 12".

NATURE WATCH:

Night fall at Bull Creek.

Blue/Lavender; Gestures 4

Drawn from life, this April.

Blue/Lavender is Tombow marker, ink and pastel on highly absorbent watercolor paper, about 6" x 9".

Gestures 4 is charcoal on shopping bag.

PRIZE :  

I won Petrea's 200th Zen Monday contest (okay, I tied with Pasadena Adjacent).  To participate in more Zen Mondays, which are lots of fun, even without prizes, check out Pasadena Daily Photo.

NATURE WATCH:

Bull Creek, beer and ribs.

Green/Yellow; Gestures on Brown Paper; Daniela Rossell (Ricas y Famosas)

Drawn from life, different days, different models.

Green/Yellow is black ink over Tombow marker with brush and water, on watercolor paper, about 5"x8".

Gestures on Brown Paper is drawn from one-minute poses.  Charcoal on cut open shopping bag

                                                  

SFMOMA, where I found some Lichtenstein imagery for my last post, has a fascinating feature:  Short video interviews with artists.

Check out  Daniela Rossell, on her book of photographs, Ricas y Famosas and on femininity, to get you started.  Gorgeous photos and interesting genesis for her project.

I now have a copy of  Ricas y Famosas.  The photos are gorgeous and the context of the work is much clearer.  The photos, taken together, are about wealth in Mexico; how the very very rich live.  Rossell is a member of this privileged group.  The photos started with close friends and family and grew from there.  The subjects decided how and where and with what they would be photographed.

Body in Motion

Drawn from life, charcoal on 18"x24" paper.   Gestures.

One of my favorite life drawings.

Even though lovely model and good drawing needn't go together, in this case it all worked for me, and I had a big enough piece of paper to capture my response.


The charcoals in this are mixed, some soft willow that I wiped a bit to produce the shadowy figures, some harder charcoal stick and some sharpened charcoal pencil.