Gentle sketch of Melinda
Charcoal


















Drawing in sauguine pencil...the foot is the best part...

































A couple recent drawings with sepia on blue with cream pencil instead of white.

Lisa

















Just a shirt

Trying to get back to simply using pencil...on a toned background...this gives it a richness plain white paper doesn't have.



















All of these are relatively small...and I am getting in the grove of keeping them simple...but concise..












Another drawing I wished I didn't have to sell...

















Charcoal on grey paper...really like whats going on in this one with the edges and contours...it felt subtle...but vibrant and direct...

Drawing more

I can't get these in sequence...but you get the idea. This feels like I am getting to the nuts and bolts of drawing finally. Some real structural work as it were...

Draw more

I love shoulders...the power...all that they suggest of a male figure..the strength...capability...doesn't hurt when they are swimmers either.


















This drawing shows a level of understanding that popped onto the paper. I didn't realize how beautifully the neck can fit into the shoulders in pencil!



















Here is a drawing on watercolor paper toned with watercolor...and then drawn with conte. I had forgotten mine, but a wonderful artist in our group gaveme access to his tool box and I wore his conte stick out. This one is important to me because of the feeling I got while doing it. I was able to tap into the flow and the freedom and sense of abandon while I was drawing that was new and different. I've been in the "zone" before...this was new. Who needs drugs??? I may keep this one...












This is a back study that worked for me on many levels. I love doing the back...all my models know this and ask why...I don't have an answer yet...