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.

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.

Model

This was for the Wet Canvas website where you draw a portrait photo they post. This was all pastel pencil.

Jay Street Pastel

The last of the Jay Street pastels, 11x14.

Pastel Landscape

Same street looking West on the other side, 10x8.

First Pastel Landscape

This is my first landscape using the Unison landscape set of 36 colors. This street of century homes is close to where I work, and an early Spring had the trees blossoming. I took a reference photo on an overcast day and light rain earlier. Still a little early for the trees to grow in. 8x10

Portrait of AJ

Here's a new portrait on Miliani paper that I bought since it was on sale and thought I would try. It's very texturey even after many layers of pastel. I usually don't like this much texture for portraits but it does give it a nce look.

Pastel Portrait of Kristen

Since I missed last Friday's model session I had Tim take a few photos of our model. It took quite a while for the initial drawing since I start with a nice charcoal drawing and like to see all the details at this stage, and then take away the shading before starting with pastel. The likeness was good but not quite right. I kept at it for quite a while, over a few days, fixed the chin, added more hair, and worked on the jaw and it came out great.

Pastel Portrait of Larry

This is the first portrait using the Unisons. Larry is a fellow portrait artist who creates unique color portraits using Prismacolors. I snatched a small blurry photo off of his Facebook page for the reference.

Pastel Portrait

This is a portrait of Haley, 2 1/2. Started as a charcoal portrait and ended up a pastel.