Monday, April 8, 2013

London, March 27th - April 6 2013.

Here are some sketches from my first visit to London!  

 SFO, waiting to leave.
 Thursday, first day in London!  These were some really cool busts decorating a new building, and a quickie of the London Underground.
 In the great auditorium of the British Museum...of course I had to spend some time with the Totem poles!
 A neat bit on a nifty old hearth, wrought of Iron, and the Salisbury Pub, near our Host house in London.
More sketches from the British Museum.  You could draw stuff in there for months!
 A sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum, and a girls head from the lobby of the London Museum.
 Some visitors to the British Museum, while I was having lunch from the cafe.
Sketch of a bust from the special Pompeii exhibit at the British Museum. Men's portraits at the time included the frank & beans, as it were.    
 My first real ale in London, in the Salisbury Pub. Then, my second, at the Garden Ladder, near by.
 Some faces and a quick sketch of a portrait in the Nation Portrait Gallery.
 A quickie of my sampler boarde at Brew Dog, Camden. The best beer of my visit!  
 Quickie of Cezanne's Bathers, in the National Gallery.  
 An amazing skull in the Hunterian Museum, London. The bar at the All-Bar-One, a lunch spot one day. 
Some really cool Idols from ancient London.  Seen in the London Museum.
 Sketch from the Serpentine Gallery of Yarn Sculpture, more idols, random sketches and faces in the lobby of the London Museum.
 A Sierra Nevada in London!  It did not taste as good as at home though.  But, I loved the Catsup they had at the All-Bar-One, I really wanted to find some to bring home!  The next page is some faces and a beer from our visit to the Sherlock Holmes Pub in London, before going to see Spam-a-Lot.
 A Doom Mar ale, lunch time at the Raglan Pub, after seeing the London Museum. These little wall gas heaters, with fake flames were everywhere, including pubs and our host house.  They crank out the heat too, more than you would think! 

 Fish and Chips at the Raglan, some quick sketches from the Serpentine gallery in Hyde Park.  They had the best Art book store I saw.  I could have bought 500 lbs of art books in there, all cheap!
Stonehenge!
 My god it was cold!  I really wanted to draw more, but I thought I might lose fingertips in the process, so I just took more photos. 
 Quickie of our Tour guide, Phil, on the bus to Stonehenge, Windsor Castle and Oxford.  
My plane, for the ride home.  Pre-distorted by the turbulence we would face just a few hours later over Iceland!  
 A fellow passenger with a fantastic face! I would have loved to drawn him more.  
 Another version of our plane.  I got there super early and had some time to kill so I drew it twice.
 Faces of my fellow passengers and a couple of airport workers on the tarmac.  

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Friday drawing at Kroeber Hall.

Friday Drawing: Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley.  March 22, 2013.
I am drawing with my trusty gold tipped Namiki fountain pen, with Noodler's Tienanmen Red ink. I use a Windser & Newton Sable watercolor brush #3 to fill in the shadows. 
Getting warmed up.  As always, I arrived during the 10 minute poses. 
 Another 10.
20 minute pose. It did not take the full 20, I was drawing in a smaller sketchbook, but it gave me time for filling in all the areas of Red.  
Two 20 minute poses. I enjoyed breaking up her figure.  This approach would be an interesting way to do some figure study paintings.    
 The last pose, which I thought was very lovely, very simple.  Sometimes I enjoy the simple poses the most.  But, my concentration was waning, so I focused on her face, which I screwed up, not once, but thrice!

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Sunday February 24
I attended the Bay Area Models Guild Drawing Marathon this morning: Here is some of what I did there.
10 minute pose.

20 minute pose.

20 minute Pose, probably my favorite from the day.

20 minute pose.

5 minute pose.

20 minute pose.

20 minute, going for color, just wish I had gotten better shapes in her face.

15 minute pose, the last of the day.

Some sketches from the 1 and 2 minute stage.
Phew!  Glad I went, even if for only half of the day. It's the first Marathon I have been too in a year.  Thanks BAMG, and their coordinator, Sonia.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Figure Drawing in 2013

Friday night drawing, Kroeber Hall in Berkeley, CA!
All of these were drawing with a fountain pen, using Noodlers Ink, Tiananmen Red and Habanero Orange. The solids are filled in with the use of a Winsor-Newton Water Colour Sable brush, #5 or #5.
Friday February 8, 2013.
Not sure what to draw?  Not interested in most of the pose, or just running out of time?   Focus on just one portion of your model and pay attention to some details that usually get lost, like the feet!

Moody, near silhouettes.

I really enjoyed the play of light on the models back.

A woman sitting next to me was very curious about the way I was drawing.  She literally asked me "how do you draw?" I explained that I was interested in the shadows, and looking for how to break down the shadows on the model into solid blocks, and was drawing the outlines of those shadows, which I would fill in later.  Here is step one... 

And here is step two.  I used two different colors of ink here, a dark red that I used  when drawing the outlines, and another lighter red where the figure went back in space.

More moody...
 Friday February 1, 2013.
Drawing at Triple Rock Brewery, after a session at Kroeber hall.

Two versions of the same pose, one on the light side, and one on the dark.










Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Emily, May 8th.
 Here is a Smattering of my recent Tuesday night drawings.  
Jenny, May 22nd.

Alicia, May 15th.

Bridget, May 29th.

Bridget, May 29th.

Bridget, May 29th.

Bridget, May 29th.

Bridget, May 29th.

Bridget, May 29th.

Bridget, May 29th.