January 26, 2007
January 25, 2007
Work Much. Fun Little
Working a lot lately…very tired, but it was fun to squeeze in this life drawing session. Just playing some more with ink. The three poses in the second image and the three poses in the last image were all 1 minute poses. The rest were 3 and 5 minutes. Off to bed…
January 18, 2007
Wednesday Figure Drawing
This week I tried out some new art supplies. My friend Cholki suggested I try different line widths a while back, so I picked up some dipping pens with various nib widths. It’s a little tricky changing tools when you’re doing very quick sketches, but for this session I used one thick and one medium nib with red and black waterproof ink. It completely changes the way you think about adding color with red line versus black. It’ll take some practice to get more out of it.
January 15, 2007
Thank You
I Have a Dream
“But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.”
“This I believe to be the privilege and the burden of all of us who deem ourselves bound by allegiances and loyalties which are broader and deeper than nationalism and which go beyond our nation’s self-defined goals and positions. We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls “enemy,” for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers.”
January 11, 2007
Wednesday Life Drawing
Here are this weeks life drawings. Being able to spend a couple of hours in the middle of the day doing these is great. It’s just enough time to warm up and start getting somewhere. It gets tricky to find space for these to dry as I’m cranking them out during these sessions. I like laying them all out on the floor at night and choosing the best ones to post. I culled about half of what I painted today, which is pretty good and even the stuff I cull keeps getting a little better each time.
January 8, 2007
Santa Monica Tree
I spent most of the day out in Santa Monica, wandering about, enjoying the weather to try and get away from working in front of the computer. I ran into my pal D’Lo who was wandering about as I painted this tree. Later I picked up some more inspirational Ralph Steadman books and visited my pal Gary.
I could have done so much more with this one if I hadn’t painted in the darker values on the second layer of branches…oh well. I tried to use some blue and red to get that sense of depth back, but it would work better if it wasn’t as dark. Those trees are amazing!
Watts Towers
My friend Chris took me to check out the Watts Towers. He is a very talented photographer, so be sure to check out the photos he took that day. I did this simple watercolor sketch there. You can see some of the photos I took here.
January 4, 2007
Wednesday 3s and 5s
Today I got to try out my new sketchpad. It’s a Canson Watercolor Biggie Jr. These are big 50 page watercolor sketchbooks, about double the size of the ones I was using before. Perfect for flying through in these life drawing sessions.