Simply defined, at Life drawing session, North Pole Grange, 29 December 2010

Life drawing sessions

These are sketches done at life drawing sessions in Fairbanks and North Pole. As usual I've posted my poor sketches along with those that are not so bad.
difficult

difficult

22 Dec 2017 152
Charcoal on sketch paper.
Seven

Seven

28 Dec 2017 2 129
Watercolor pencil on 8 1/2 by 12 inch sketch paper.
Quickly

Quickly

26 Mar 2018 198
One minute poses. Alaska willow charcoal on 11 by 14 inch sketch paper.
Thoughtfuly

Thoughtfuly

26 Mar 2018 2 185
Alaska willow charcoal on 11 by 14 inch sketch paper.
Happily

Happily

26 Mar 2018 176
Alaska willow charcoal on 11 by 14 inch sketch paper.
Quietly

Quietly

26 Mar 2018 129
Alaska willow charcoal on 11 by 14 inch sketch paper.
Perchance to dream

Perchance to dream

09 Mar 2018 1 161
Ink and water soluble crayon on Bristol vellum paper, 11 by 14 inches.
Shadow play

Shadow play

23 Feb 2018 161
Alaska willow charcoal on 11 by 14 inch sketch paper. One of the nice things about working with charcoal is the choice of line or shadow. In this drawing I started with the side of the charcoal stick, laying in the darker areas, the shadows, rubbing, spreading adjusting them with my fingers, and lastly, throwing in just a few lines to delimit the figure.
Calm

Calm

01 Jan 2005 160
Ink and colored pencil on Bristol vellum paper
Define

Define

01 Jan 2005 171
Alaska willow charcoal on 11 by 14 inch sketch paper.
Delimit

Delimit

01 Jan 2005 159
Alaska willow charcoal on 11 by 14 inch sketch paper.
Refine

Refine

01 Jan 2005 1 156
Alaska willow charcoal on sketch paper, 'fixed' with linseed oil and mounted over colored and white paper.
One minute poses

One minute poses

01 Mar 2018 169
The model wanted this one, but I took this picture of it before we left the studio.
Sandday

Sandday

01 Mar 2018 154
I didn't do it this year but I'll often take a break from our cold Alaska winters with a trip to the Orient. None the less the idea often crosses my mind during these drawing sessions. Ink and oil plastel on Bristol vellum paper.
Shades of play

Shades of play

23 Feb 2018 1 154
Ink and oil pastels.
Dreams

Dreams

23 Feb 2018 3 192
2 minute pose, from last weeks life drawing session. Alaska willow charcoal on 11 by 14 inch sketch paper.
Texas longneck

Texas longneck

23 Feb 2018 138
OK, playing around. Oil pastels on Bristol vellum paper, 11 by 14 inches.
hence

hence

09 Mar 2018 149
Oil pastels on Bristol vellum paper, 11 by 14 inches.
227 items in total