Portrait Sketch

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.

Figure Drawing at Ron Johnson's Studio

This is the same model, Nikki, on separate modeling sessions, 3 to 4 sessions each on Saturday for a whopping 4 hours each session. Unfortunately we'll be taking part of the summer off from the studio.

Some New Landscapes

The Fisherman (11x14) was done a while back while the other two are recent (12x18). Park Entrance (at Horseshoe Lake) has some great color in the sunlit trees looking down North Park road. For the Catamaran it was a dreary day at Wendy Park in Ohio City.

Drawn and Quartered III

The 3rd Drawn and Quartered was held at Wall Eye Gallery on Detroit Rd featuring artists from Dr. Sketchy, NOIS Northern Ohio Illustrators Society, Tremont Pretentious Artists  and The Murray Hill Group. There were about 35 artists in all in different drawing competitions and proud to say The Pretentious Artists of the Literary Cafe scored a big surprise First Place.

Above is Michael Salinger shouting out instructions as he emcees the event. Look for the special page of photos on the blog.

Portrait at the Lit

I've missed quite a few Fridays at the Lit over the last month or so but here's a new sketch after 2 hours (left a little earlier than usual). The is Michael B who has posed for us maybe 5 times now. On the left is the latest and on the right is about 3 years old back when all i did was pencil or charcoal.

Portrait Study

The owners of the Literary are out of town so we ended up drawing at Tim's Manly Pad. Tim has a pretty cool art collection of local artists plus a ton of his art all over the place. This is RJ, who lives right across the street and came over to pose. He was rock solid for the full 3 hours. With the lighting at Tim's there were some striking shadows on RJ which makes the subject much more interesting to draw.

This was mostly charcoal with some light touches of color and highlight using pastel pencil.

Portrait Sketch

I missed out on drawing Laurel live on Friday, so Tim sent me a few photos to work from. Mostly charcoal with some touches of pastel. First time drawing on orange paper out of my pad. Gotta try them all!

Figure in Pastel

This is my pastel from my Saturday drawing session. The model Laura, wearing only dreadlocks, posed for 4 Saturdays 3 hours each. This is the second figure in pastel I've ever done, the first being so-so. Ron Johnston, who is leading the class in his studio, gave me some tips on how he starts and works the colors into a pastel drawing. Starting with blues and greens and other deeper colors to define shadow areas and then working the flesh tones over it. Despite the few drawing mistakes of the figure I'm pretty happy with this.

Portrait Sketch

This is Dante, a chef at a few restaurants in Tremont. He's been waiting patiently for a while to get his portrait done. He's wearing his chef hat which is a nice touch. Everyone did a good portrait of him.

Portrait Sketch

Here's a pastel of a musician named David. It's a good likeness but I made his head a little skinny.