Skull in Charcoal 2

This one has a charming Smile.  I like the planar structure.

Plein Air

This was not actually produced in plein air.

Almost Nothing

One of my all-time favorite gesture studies.  Just kind of nailed it right away.  Probably 5 minutes.

Sketch

Ed's Head

Head study demo of my friend Ed.

Pregnant Lady

This model cleaned our house for a year in trade for a mother/daughter portrait.  She also traded modeling time for this one I think.

Poppies

An interpretive portrait I began as a life painting demo for a class.

Portrait of Aslan

A portrait of my son from many years back.  I had posted a video of me completing it from life in one hour and eight minutes.  I added a few touchups later, but this is essentially a single sitting portrait.

Gesture and volume

I like the gesture and weight of the figure to the left.

Skull in Charcoal

I sold this off the wall to a student who kept trying to cut me a great deal on a Saturn all quarter.

Dancey Dance

Male figure demo.  Looks like he's dancing.

Wacky Overlappy

Overlapping sketches.

Dick Lucas

Portrait of Subhumans and Citezen Fish frontman, Dick Lucas.

Drawing, figure in perspective.

Another figure demo, lesson on perspective.  Great model.

Reclined in Charcaol and Graphite

A ground of 1/2 charcoal powder and 1/2 graphite powder, with lights erased into.

More Foreshortening Fun

Simple and Bold

Sometimes you just want to cut to the chase and draw some lines.

Sketchbook

Fun with deep space.  Inspired a little by Citizen Kane.

Student head

Head of a student.  Class demo.

Musicians

This was a very special project that I did for someone, and it was my goal to get as close to a dutch process as possible from the canvas and ground up to pigment choices and handling.  It is a painting of some local musicians who perform at a historic building.

Back in Contrapposto

This was a demo on how to draw a model who is constantly moving and changing the pose.

Mickey Mouse is Dead

Our old house in the country had mice.  

I was short a model that day, so this little guy made a nice stand in.

Heads

Executed at the Draw-a-Thon.

Umbilical Cord

The painted version of this is in progress.