Portraits

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).

Portrait Sketch

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.