I haven’t picked up a brush to actually paint something in about two months. I’ve been mixing a lot of paint, and thinking about painting a lot, and getting ready to paint, but brush to canvas hasn’t happened for a while until today. I varnished the drawing of the [...]

I’m really trying to get this one finished up in the next few days. It’s almost there, I’ve got a contour I’m happy with, I think the toes are correct, and it’s mostly a matter of filling in the shadows and doing the even tones.

The shadows on the three [...]

I feel like Kirk, shaking my fist at the screen and letting loose with the primal howl. BARRRRGH!!!!

Although it had been going slowly, I thought I was cruising on Bargue Plate 5. I had the contour right and was starting to mass in the shadows, and getting ready to [...]

Didn’t go last week because of school… as frustrating as I always find it, though, I went again and should try to keep going at least once a week.

Heads in perspective this week.

OK, here’s this year’s Macy. Actually from a moment last fall. This is a detail, the 11×14 original is too big to scan, but this is most of it.

The roughness of the paper in this medium made this really challenging… you can’t get much detail, so it’s more like [...]

Another ongoing assignment for this class is to draw fifteen tiny heads, smaller than a quarter, with no significant detail.

I’m not sure I get the point of this one yet, but I think there’s actually something to this… a full sheet of them would be interesting to look at. [...]

On we go – focusing on ears this past week.

There is nothing harder in art than portraiture. I’ve said this a million times and it is hardly a controversial statement, but it bears repeating, frequently.

This is part of a mouth. Charcoal on gray charcoal paper. Click on it for full size, and you’ll see the level of detail [...]

Phase one: under-drawing. Primed the canvas three times and wet- sanded it down to “pretty smooth,” it’ll do. I was initially going to sight-size this, but I’ve realized I just don’t have the space I need to do it right. Instead, I marked spots on the floor just out of [...]