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  • Sketchbook Saturday

    Raquel

    A lack of practice leads to sore shoulder, poor eye-hand coordination, distortions (big hands).
    Eroica

  • Sketchbook Saturday

    Merritt

    Seated Woman

  • New Pastels

    Unfinished Business, pastel on paper
    Bridging the Gap, 18”x24”, compressed charcoal and pastel on paper

  • Derwent pencil drawings

    A light touch required …

    Colored pencil sketches. Derwent pencils, waxy not chalky, prevent smudging and my tendency toward overdoing manual blending. Still, the leads are soft and dull easily. If I remember correctly, they don’t break as much during sharpening as Conte pencils, but a forceful hand will snap the lead right off while working. It’s amazing how much of these and the Conte pencils end up in the trash bin. I bought a few of these, found them frustrating to use, moved on.

    Color Pencil Sketch
    Color Pencil Sketch
    Color Pencil Sketch
    Color Pencil Sketch

  • Sitting on the easel …

    Pastel on Strathmore drawing paper 18”x24”

  • Coronavirus Sketchbook

    “Anna”

    Anna, ink pen sketch in Moleskine sketchbook
    Anna, ink pen sketch in Moleskine sketchbook
    Primitive Series, compressed charcoal on Strathmore drawing paper, 18”x24”
    Seated Woman, compressed charcoal on Strathmore drawing paper, 18”x24”

  • Saturday Sketchbook

    Raquel, compressed charcoal
    Raquel
    Nupastel sketch

  • Selfie

    Standing Male Nude, pastel on black paper, 11”x14”

  • Arthur

    It was an honor to once again this Sunday have Arthur model for us. Unfortunately, it was an off day for me. The pose was complicated, which I enjoy, but I was apparently not up to the task. There is a lack of a sense of three dimensional volume and many scratchy, searching lines that don’t really add up to more than scribbly evidence of careless uncertainty.

    Arthur Reclining

  • Saturday Sketchbook

    “Raquel”