Rough block-in.
Refining areas...
Starting to add color.
Lovely end result of demo....
Tools of the trade...
Then we got a turn. My initial block-in/underpainting.
Initial color application.
How far I got in our 2.5 hours...
Then our final critique. Compared to our
first week, I think we made amazing progress! In the meantime, I have a teensy bit more of a feel for this thing called oil paint....
Second week of the oil-painting portrait workshop...
This week, we were shown several different approaches to underpainting...
Shadow patterns, silhouettes, vine-charcoal drawings... Shown with the hope that one will 'work' for us in any given situation.
(I still don't know what I'm doing....)
(Oil paint is stupid!)
Charcoal is a little more familiar...
I want to do one of these a day until I get a better feel... Given my current schedule, it's a little bit wishful thinking, but something I'd like to aspire to.
*THANKFULLY* Life Drawing this week was much more serene than
*last time*...
Lovely, lyrical model - made for fun gestures and warm up sketches...
Sadly, this is the only session at Arts Umbrella this month (our normal week happens to be the day after Thanksgiving :-(....)
But I'm happy for what I can get.
I have found that since I've been working fairly non-stop on series' illustration that trying to fit in time for personal art has become problematic (it may just be me, your mileage may vary).
So, since I was starting to feel like I didn't have enough going on in my life (*cough*), I volunteered to monitor a Life Drawing series back at the
art studio I used to teach at before my-life-of-relentless-deadlines.
Arts Umbrella is located in the quaint and charming
Country Village.
It was a beautiful, sunny morning, with their weekly Farmer's Market in full swing (nearly the last one of the season).
One of the reasons I love Country Village is that there are all kinds of critters underfoot -
Including this mama-hen with her *10,* just days-old chicks. Awfully late in the season for these babies...
But back to Life Drawing - in trying to put these sessions together with enough attendance to pay for the models I stumbled across the most wonderful 'event' site: Meetup. This site and service was new to me, and boy is it comprehensive! and a terrific meeting tool. I'm looking forward to expanding its use in the future.
And I must say that the figure drawing session went well. We had a terrific turn-out and a great model. It's been some time since I've done life drawing and am working out the kinks in the rusty anatomical-observational skills, but it felt really good to be doing it again. Doing something that is just art, for art's sake rather than for a client or deadline. And the whole rationale behind being 'in charge' was to make certain the I would have no excuse not to attend.
This should work!
Good for you for not letting the last session get in the way of the new one. Sometimes things get linked and you can lose your taste for doing something in the future because something unsettling happened in the past.
By the way, I'm once again reminded, and envious, that I can't draw a lick and never could.
This last drawing is beautiful!
Penny.
x
Really lovely! The bottom one is one of the best life drawings I've seen you post.
Great drawings. Keep on!
I hope she didn't take a chill! Lovely work...
Sandi
Tara, I love these, especially the last. The shadows and texture is wonderful! The covers for the books are great too!
Really nice ! I am envious of the opurtunity to have human models....I bought some pomegranites because I thought they'd be nice to draw LOL....but there is always the rabbits.
These are lovely.
Her neck, feet and ankles are particularly well done -not as easy as it looks.
The last drawing is particularly beautiful and gorgeous! Thank you so much for allowing us to see..I found your blog only today. :)
Beautiful drawings, have to say i also love the last one, i wish we had life drawing classes close by , sigh ;-)
Regarding the bottom one: The tilt of her head makes the drawing I think. It's as if she just turned her eye gently toward you as you entered the room.