Binah

Three hours or so, with some clean-up and simplification at home.

Christie and I met up at Art Center to paint in their Friday evening workshops. We had made a deal earlier to teach each other our fortes, so tonight I gave her pointers on traditional painting in oils, and she let me borrow her laptop for an attempt at a digital black-and-white study from life! Yeah!

I got teased by some of the old timers in there for betraying the "cause", and lots of curious on-lookers came over to see what I was doing. I'm kind of surprised this is a big deal to everyone, and sort of shocked that more people aren't doing it!

Oh, and sorry for the lack of updates lately. I've been kind of lazy in photographing my work, but I haven't been idle at all, and am constantly drawing and painting. I'm currently working on a couple of illustrations for competitions. I'll post those lickety-split.

Nicole

Four hours. 11" x 14". I wasn't terribly happy with the drawing I did on Tuesday, and even though I have impending deadlines for illustrations, I decided to head down to a workshop to get some practice in... and boy am I glad I did! We had gorgeous models tonight, I ended up getting a decent painting out of the session, and best of all, I finally got to meet Michael Hussar, who dropped by for a surprise visit. Yeah! I've admired his work for so long... it was such a pleasure to finally meet the guy! What a cool cat!

Alma

Four hours. I went back to drawing with good old charcoal again tonight just to add some variety to the routine as well as to help me pinpoint trouble spots with my painting process. Painting is drawing, after all. Hm. I've got to find a better way next session to keep the blacks down on this paper - and I need to invest in a decent mahl stick too!

Sara

Four hours. Hopefully this one makes up for the shitty painting I did of Sara last week!

ともさかりえ

Three hours. I'm calling this one done. Learned a lot from it!

Kirsten

Four hours.

ともさかりえ

Four hours on and off. A work in progress. I'm still trying to understand Zhanglu's methodology behind his portraits. With each head I draw I pick up another piece of the puzzle.

I took some liberties with the reference I was using of ともさかりえ, a popular Japanese idol in the nineties whom my college roommates and I went gaga over. Ahhh, the memories. I really want to bring this to a refined finish, but I've got to get up early in the morning for work... ! Hopefully I can squeeze in some time this week to return to it, but it'll be tough, since I've got looming deadlines for illustrations and my portfolio hovering over me.

Lunchtime

Three minute sketches? I like to draw people on my lunch break whenever I can to get some practice in during the day. It's pretty amazing how variable the human head can be.

Paul

Ten minute quick sketches focusing on drapery as well as light and shadow patterns.

Angela

Fives and a two-hour long pose. Aaron Westerberg subbed in for our portrait and figure drawing class on Wednesday. He helped clean and spice up my quick sketches, and also suggested that I go as light as possible on the larger drawing and slowly build up to the darks. Looks kinda cool that way. I tend to have a heavy hand so this was good practice for me.

Sorry about the wrinkles; heat and sunlight warp newsprint. For some reason it's really hot these days in Southern California. I think we had like two days of actual winter temperatures.