real quick...

Pictures of the FINISHED DRAWING (see post below) coming soon!

for now, some profiles i did of fourteen 8th graders i helped teach over the past school year (the girl in the picture is in 7th grade)...

thanks for your patience. it's been a tough couple of months for a lot of reasons...one of them making me physically unable to draw for a while. but thankfully i'm getting back on track :)
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3 (almost) down...

i finally have jude in. i know it's been a little while since the last update, and you may be saying to yourself "wow...not much to look at after 3 weeks..." but i have good reason...

first of all, keep in mind that the piece is life-sized, and i am constantly reworking little areas. (i spent a lot more time back in the hands, for example) also, i'm lucky to get more than a few hours a week to work on it (and that's scattered throughout many late nights) and, well, on this particular portrait, i ran into some problems.

jude (the middle boy)'s face holds the most subtle, soft, sweet, mischeveous expression...and i had to redraw it multiple times. finally, after i had erased it completely yet again, i realized i had only one last chance to draw it and get it right because the charcoal just wasn't lifting anymore. i stayed away from the drawing for a few days just to clear my mind of it.
i then attacked it again about a week ago...and i got it!! at least, i got it pretty close. it was such a relief...if i had screwed up one more time it would have ruined the drawing. (WHEWW)

can't wait to work on it more this weekend :)

the preliminary sketch...

drawing update

coming along...slowly but surely! i love the expression on jasie's face...
hands are wonderfully difficult. i love it.

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elizabeth's kids...progress pics

just a few pictures of my drawing so far. i don't really get much time to work on it...but it's coming along! i've got james pretty much done...






see the preliminary sketch

Florence in June

2007
Oil on Board
11.75 x 8.75

cam

Here now is a drawing i just did as a Christmas present for my aunt Wren of her son, Cameron, when he was a baby. (so shhh don't tell her)...

Cam

9x12

graphite on paper

This piece was an learning experience...i was given a blurry photograph to work from, first of all, which is kind of the #1 way to make something a lot more difficult than it needs to be. Doing the under-drawing was a pain in the arse as a result. After 3 days of frustrated sketching i kind of threw in the towel...i didn't touch it for about 2 months because i was so fed up with it.
But time heals all wounds, they say...and the adage held true in this case. When i picked it up again a few days ago i took advantage of my fresh eyes and did a couple of minor corrections, which is all it really needed. Then i sat down, did the whole render in one evening and got it framed the next day. :)
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just for fun...here's cam now, 13 years later:

kids.

new landscape painting coming soon...

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jasie and jorie

little head studies for the twin babies in the sketch below (previous post).


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