Figure Drawing

Untitled Female No 20, ink and watercolour, 6 x 6 inches, ©2017

Figure Drawing

Sketchbook ~ Figure Drawing

Tuesday afternoon figure drawing session at the Arts Project, male model. I prefer female, but I think it's good practice to draw males too. The model was great, totally enjoyed the session. Not only did he hold the poses really well, his poses were interesting and challenging. Well defined muscle structure in the form. Faber Castell PITT Pen and 6B pencil.

Figure Drawing

Sketchbook - Figure Drawing

I went to figure drawing yesterday at The Arts Project for the first time in years! There's been so much architecture in my work and I haven't made time for the human form. So that's going to change. There is a figure drawing session on Monday night from 7pm to 10pm and another one on Tuesday afternoon from 1pm to 4pm. Cost is $10. Looking forward to going back... I know this isn't a great sketch, that just means I need to go back on a regular basis and practise.

Figurative Art

 

Untitled Female No. 13

This is one of the four matted (all figurative) pieces, I am putting in the Lambeth Art Association Annual Show and Sale. The Spring Sale is Thursday April 25 to Saturday April 27 at the Lambeth United Church.

India Ink, applied with a brush, on tan stonehenge paper, from figure drawing session at The ARTS Project

Figure Drawing Sketches

Finallly got back to figure drawing at the ARTS Projuect on monday night. I prefer drawing the female form, but he was a great model.

Figure Drawing

Untitled Female No. 13

India Ink, applied with a brush, on tan stonehenge paper, from figure drawing session at The ARTS Project.

Figure Drawing

Sketches from Figure Drawing

Attended figure drawing at The Arts Project on Monday night. This was a first time model. She was great.... lots of motion in gestures, held longer poses really will. Just a couple of the sketches.

Here and There, Switzerland

 

Here and There, Switerland (size: 7" x 9")

Commission artwork, with style based on a previous painting. After visiting Switerland, this is the painting to commemorate the trip. I started with the figure, from a Monday night session at The ARTS Project. I looked through the photos from the trip and picked out images that I felt suited, windows and mountains. I used the greenery to tie it together, similar to “Here and There”. “Edelweiss” the unofficial national flower of Switzerland. (The common name comes from German edel, meaning "noble", and weiß (also spelled weiss) "white", thus signifying "noble whiteness" or "noble purity".) Windows are interesting and symbolic.... they are an invisible division between private and public, are you inside looking out or outside looking in. Windows are said to symbolize enlightenment.

Here and There (size 6" x 12")

A short explanation of the original artwork, created in 2008 ... The human figure is at some level a self portrait. This represented my new found appreciation of the architecture in downtown London. This artwork was done after I came back from Limoux in the picturesque Languedoc area of Southern France, in 2007. The windows: one from a small town in southern France and and one from downtown London on Talbot Street.

Figure Drawing

From Monday nights figure drawing. I found her hair... braided, dreadlock like, most interesting and more challenging to draw than I thought it would be. The smoothness of her skin was a nice contrast to the matted angular forms of her hair. This is one page of my sketchbook from monday night.

Gesture Drawings

First figure drawing session of new year on Monday night at the ARTS Project. Model was great! Young, energetic, tall thin structure, the way she would tilt hips almost to extreme, her graceful curves especially graceful fingers, and her short spiky angular dark hair made her fun to draw. I found her poses to easy to stylize and easy to see the lines of movement. These black ink marker gestures drawings were 1 to 2 minutes.

Figure Drawing

The model last monday night at The ARTS Project was very graceful and elegant. All poses were great. It seemed really easy to draw the movement and rhythm using flowing calligrahy lines. Some of the pencil drawings from my sketch book below. I have added India ink to some of the sketches I did on stonehenge paper and watercolour paper... still working on adding the colour and making them a more finished drawing.

Figure Drawing

Monday night at TAP, great model. Two of the sketches from my sketch book, using pencil and ink pen.

Untitled Male No.3

Just sold this drawing, that was completed a couple of years. Stylized and simplified figure drawn with smooth flowing caligraphic lines.

I went to figure drawing at The ARTS Project last night. I found the models poses quite boring. The lines and the graceful form I seen with this model, I didn't see at all. Used last nights session, strictly as practise, not worth posting anything I did, thats for sure.

Figure Drawing

Attended a figure drawing session at The Arts Project for the first time in months. Great model on monday night. The sessions have changed slightly with new person looking after the timing. Many,many short gesture poses starting at 30 sec, 1 min, etc, which I really like. Attached is a couple of the sketches in the 3 to 5 minute range. Hopefully get there again next monday night.

Figure Drawing - Male vs Female

For me, a male figure drawing is just that, a male figure drawing. I just draw what I see and I don't feel the need to add or expand the image. But with a female figure drawing, I have a whole different approach. It just expands itself. When I see the female form (drawn on my page), I see more. Its about what is going on in my life right now, how I am feeling about certain things, more of story emerges. It's really a self portrait, of sorts. The three pictures that I have at The ARTS Project right now, are examples of that.




Untitled Female No, 6 (6' x6", India Ink and Graphite) The figure drawing was done with reference to a figure drawing session on January 4th. I played around with quite a few other layouts, more complicated, detailed drawings and finally came to a use the very simple backgorund shapes that represent Museum London.... Art Rental and Sales Gallery.

Available Models

I haven't been to The Arts Project for a figure drawing session since June. During the summer, firstly, I would rather be outside... golfing, drawing, whatever. Secondly, and I know figure drawing is always great practise, but I was getting bored with what I was doing there and how I was approaching the sessions. A break was needed.

Now I am missing the life drawing sessions. Thursday when I was in the mood to draw and had the time to draw, the only available models were my dogs. I spent a couple of hours sketching them. Was very challenging until they curled up to sleep. I am looking forward to next monday's session.

Mac, Ink, from my sketchbook