Portraits

These four are much more beautiful in person - Rachel (TL) who has also posed before, Kristina has drawn with us several times, (BL) Jocelyn, and Rose.

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Diane in the top-right turned out really great, bottom-left I was sick so ended up using a photo reference that was taken during the sitting, and bottom-right is my friend's amazing daughter Halie.

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A collection of drawings on the cheap paper featuring Amy top left who has drawn with us as an artist but has disappeared the last few months - must be out having fun.

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The top row are actually brothers and also the nephews of Tim's. The left and oldest posed during the summer, and Danny, still in high school posed last week. He actually came up a handful of times a few years ago and drew with us.

I can't believe its been a whole year since I last posted anything. Since last March I've still drawn at the Lit every Friday, maybe missing a few Fridays here and there, so I have a whole bunch of portraits. Instead of uploading all of them I chose 12 and bunched them into 3 large comps.

Some of the drawings were done on some cheap charcoal paper and also cheap drawing paper, both in either pencil or charcoal pencils. Both ways are interesting but have their drawbacks, pencil can't get dark enough for me but I love the smoothness, and the charcoal on cheap paper is tough to lay down exactly where you want it.

So now I'm back to Canson Mi-tientes with charcoal and a litle white, and hope to add some red soon for that Old Masters look! (ha).

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Rachel has posed many times for the Murray Hill group and others, including at Ron Johnston's for me and the gang on Saturday for 3 weeks straight. Ron also did a beautiful painting of her during a separate modeling session.
This is the second time she posed for us at the Lit and is one of better drawings I've done, though I wish I could fix the top of her hair (too high!). She's at school in Arizona and in town for a week, we'll get to draw her again in the summer.

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This is Abigail who sat like statue. Now that I'm done I've noticed the eyes are off, one of the things I need to work on!

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This Jen's co-worker, Alexis.

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This drawing of Jean was done at Tim's Manly Pad in Tremont since the Lit was closed that Friday for the owner's vacation. Jean has lived in Tremont a long time and also has a part-time gallery.

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I can't remember this models name but by the end she was getting a little antsy to get done.

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This is Don, his wife posed for us a month or so ago.

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Portrait of Adam, he was serious looking the whole night. I've pretty much switched to just charcoal now. I'm looking for the right paper, grey or midtoned, to use and then be able to add white highlights and light tone.

Model Photos

Some of our recent models posing at the Lit. They all look so serious! The first session is 45 minutes long before the first break, and things are usually a bit more lively with conversation and joking around. It takes some time for some models to get settled in. The next 3 sessions are 30 minutes each and by the end everyone is getting a little tired and quiet.

New Photo Page

Received a lot of candid photos of the group in action and created a new page for them. They were taken just over the last month or so by Michael Wang (Jia's fiancee). Above on the right is Jack, who does pen and ink drawings of the whole scene. The Photo page link is in the left sidebar.

Latest Bunch of Portraits

Several portraits from over the last 2 months at the Lit on Fridays. Three hour sitting with 3 breaks. I haven't drawn too much lately and need to get semi-serious again with some good paper and practice (or a project) during the week. BONUS: photo of what they really look like!

Landscape Quarry Road

This is traveling north on Quarry Road out in Wellington, getting dark with sun setting to the left. There's a lot of good scenes out in this area. Pastel, 18x12 on Canson Mi-tientes.

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This is Steve who posed for a second time at the Lit. This turned out great with good proportions and likeness. Drawn on cheap white paper and pastel pencils.

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This is Alex, an artist and also 3D animator like myself. He's heavily into the art scene in Cleveland and Lorain. Pastel pencil on cheap white paper. I may upgrade soon.

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Can't remember this fellows name, but he's one of the many poets we've drawn on Friday. Many poets hang out at the Literary and had monthly readings staged there. A little bit of the "skinny head" here.

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Finally some new posts! This is Bob, a good likeness but another case of "skinny head". Need to check those horizontal proportions. Pastel pencil on cheap white paper. After doing quite a few in just black and white just to focus on proportions and good drawing, I'm back to getting some color in them.