Visual Fringe

The London Fringe Festival from May 30 to June 10 is unique theatre, film, and visual art. Fringe is dramatic, magical, camaraderie, comedic, musical and so much more.

VisualFringe features the work of 25 local and area visual artists. Meet and mingle with the artists and be the first to purchase great artwork. The exhibit will run throughout the entire Fringe Festival, closing on Saturday, June 10. Join us at our VisualFringe opening on Wednesday,
May 31st! at The ARTS Project.

London Studio Artist Tour

The London Artist Studio Tour is this weekend. The tour includes 37 individual artists plus some guest artists. Come on over to Studio #30 (The ARTS Project, 203 Dundas Street) and see some of Joanna Mozdzen’s beautiful sculptures. I am honoured to be guest artist at her studio. Hope to see you on the weekend! 

Figurative Sketch

Sketchbook ~ Figurative Line Sketch

i spent a great afternoon at the Figure Drawing Session (The ARTS Project) on Tuesday. Laura was excellent model, interesting poses, and she held them well. I did a number of small line drawings that will be add some colour to later today.

My Name is Margaret Harman

Poster for "My Name is Margaret Harman"

This is poster I did for the play "My Name is Margaret Harman" written and directed by Jason Rip. All proceeds to the Fugitive Slave Chapel Preservation Project. Location The ARTS Project from February 8 to 11, 2017.

Figure Drawing

Sketchbook - Figure Drawing

Another enjoyable figure drawing session at The ARTS Project.

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

Great model at The Arts Project yesterday. One of the poses, simplified, ink and graphite.

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.

Female No 16

UF No. 16

Another figure drawing/painting from a session at TAP in April. Model was Gina, tall thin and graceful, which made it easy to stylize. Playing with simplicity of line and freedom of watercolour.

Untitled Female No. 15

Untitled Female No. 15

Completed this one just a few weeks ago, but original gesture was from figure drawing session at TAP on April 4, 2011. Model was Gina, tall thin and graceful, which made it easy to stylize. Playing with simplicity of line and freedom of watercolour.

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.

Figure Drawing

From last nights figure drawing session at The ARTS Project. Great model, great poses. I like these freedom and simpicity of these two short gesture sketches. I tend to get very tight and controlled with the longer poses. Still adding the watercolur on some of the ink drawings/sketches.

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.

Figure Drawing

Couple of sketches from Monday night session of figure drawing at The ARTS Project. Loved the model, great poses.

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

Last monday nights model at The ARTS Project was great. Gestures full of movement, held the longer poses incredibly well. First drawing, short pose - 3 minutes from the session.

This was started on Monday night then I added pen lines later. I like how easily pen and ink can create thick and thin lines and how stonehenge paper allows such smooth smudging.

Figure Drawing

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