Recent Plein air

Trying to get a bunch started on location then do a bit more on each this winter.

Home Plate POP

Preview of label for a friends Old Time baseball game fundraiser.

Recent Plein air

(above) I plan to get a few to a bunch of these lanscapes
painted plein air then fuss them a bit back in the studio...
stay tuned.

(below) First figure painting I have worked on since art school,
back when Cave Painting was still an elective...

This may not be Kansas, but I'm rockin' the same metaphor of waking to find a new world with color.

Start of a trend I hope. Artist pal Scott helped me seea way to get back to slappin' paint around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfYZFS7JvT0

All I had to do was take a moment and look out the freakin' front door!

Recent memory sketches

Recent figure drawings

The long pose that evening followed by that nights warm-up poses.

10 minute pose from a few weeks ago

Met Study

Killing time as I waited to meet up with a long time freelancer/associate/pal but one I had never met, I needed a place to sit and relax after a prolonged stroll through Central Park.

Recent Figuring

Have not been able to create space enough to continue paintings previously posted but I continue to attend a weekly figure drawing session. I have been amazed at the turnout here in the snow bound NE of CT. Art prevails! And so my sanity.

Long pose 4-8-10

Decided to dig in with just a pencil this time.

Met work

I have been visiting the Met for the past few years spending the day drawing items from their collection. I choose odd figurines that are as far from the anatomy I am familiar with, by doing so I am forced to focus on the object as I see it not as I know it.

The next two conform to the above and are from a recent trip to the Met.

I Must admit I sought out a seat for the last drawing of the day abandoning the object specific rendering and the 1-2 hours standing. Rodin's The Burghers of Calais has given me trouble in the past when I have tried to draw from it. I think it is because Rodin was less concerned with anatomical accuracy preferring a more impressionistic approach by manipulating the form to achieve his message. With this attempt I tried drawing shapes created by the play of light and shadow, I'm guessing that a similar method was employed by Rodin himself as he worked the clay. The result is a more solid rendition of the bronze.

The following drawings were from previous visits.

Figure Drawing book

Been working on either the same ol-happy-to-be-busy stuff or projects that cannot be posted due to client requests.

The pages below are from a personal project. I have been planning to self publish a compilation of my figure work for some time. The original plan was to pick a bunch of images and call it Volume One but once I started working the layout and selecting drawings I kept seeing opportunities to point out methods I use to create the work. I am not certain just how involved I'll go with the methods of drawing the figure, I hope to strike a nice balance between pages of drawings and some how-to when appropriate. Thought I'd post here and share the process a bit. Note: not all the copy matches up just yet.... work in progress.