Pause

 Pause

Daily sketching.

8”x 11” ink and watercolor wash on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Warrior

 Warrior

Preliminary sketching. Sketch overlay sketching on iPad with Procreate.

Islands Off Solitude. 

 

Second Week

 

Second Week

 A sketch from the pose “G” provided for the second week of a session a couple of days ago.

12”x 18” ink and watercolor wash on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Yesterday, Morning

 

Yesterday, Morning

 

Sketched “JA” yesterday morning at the drop-in session at the local art center. It was her second week in the same pose. Sketched her from a different vantage point than last week. 

12”x 18” ink and watercolor on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Conflict

 Conflict

A sheet of warm up and gesture poses from a life drawing session with “P” a couple of weeks ago.

12”x 9” ink on toned paper

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

Thoughts

 

Thoughts

 

A quick sketch study from a pose “A” provided at an open draw session not so long ago. 

11”x 14” ink on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Figure and Portrait

Figure and Portrait

A couple of sketches from the pose “G” provided at a life drawing/painting session on last Friday afternoon.

Both: 11”x 14” ink and watercolor wash on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Portrait and Figure

Portrait and Figure

 

A couple of sketches of the pose “JA” provided for the open draw/paint session yesterday morning at a local art center. 

Portrait: 9”x 12” water-soluble ink and wash on cold press. Fountain pen: Pilot Varsity

Figure: 12”x 18” ink and watercolor wash on cold press. Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

Facing Up

Facing Up

Daily sketching. A sketch of a sketch from a life drawing session with “J” not so long ago. 

14”x 11” ink and watercolor wash on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Face or Two

Face or Two

Daily sketching.

Both: 6”x 11” ink and watercolor wash on cold press.

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Still Playing a Silent Guitar

Still Playing a Silent Guitar

Portrait and Figure

 

Some sketches of the pose “S” provided for a second week at the costumed life drawing session a couple of days ago.

Portrait: 11”x 14” ink and watercolor wash on cold press

Figure: 12”x 18” ink and watercolor wash on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

"B"

“B”

Sketching family. A granddaughter.

9”x 12” ink and watercolor wash on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Sitting With Hanging Staff

 

Sitting with Hanging Staff

A sketch of a pose “P” provided at a life drawing session yesterday afternoon.

12”x 18” ink, chalk, oil sanguine and a bit of black graphite on kraft paper

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Interruption

Interruption

Daily sketching.

14”x 11” ink and watercolor wash on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Overlapping Gestures

Overlapping Gestures

 

A page of warm up sketches of gesture and short warm up poses provided by “P” in a life drawing class not so long ago.

12”x 9” ink with a bit of chalk and oil sanguine on toned paper.

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Reminder

Reminder 

 

Daily sketching. 

8”x 11” ink and watercolor wash on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

  

Silent Guitar

 

Silent Guitar

A sketch of “S” in the pose he provided for a life drawing session a couple of days ago. 

12”x 18” ink and watercolor wash on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Fitting Into a Still Life

 

Fitting Into a Still Life

 

A sketch of the pose “A” provided at the open draw session yesterday morning at the local art center. 

14”x 17” ink and watercolor wash on recycled Bristol

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Portrait and Figure

Portrait and Figure

A couple of sketches of a pose “P” provided at a life drawing session yesterday afternoon.

Portrait: 9”x 12” water-soluble ink and wash on cold press. Fountain pen: Pilot Varsity

Figure: 12”x 18” ink, chalk, oil sanguine and a bit of black graphite on kraft paper. Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Beginnings

 

Beginnings

 

A page of warm up sketches of gestures and slight longer poses “S” provided at a session last week.

12”x 9” ink on toned paper

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Introduced

 Introduced 

 Daily sketching. 

8”x 11” ink and watercolor wash on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Still Sleeping

Still Sleeping

A couple of more sketches of “S” posing again in the same pose as the week before a costumed session yesterday afternoon.

1^st: 18”x 12” ink and watercolor wash on cold press

2^nd: 15”x 11” ink and watercolor wash on cold press. 

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Chair Threatening to Move

Chair Threatening to Move

A couple of sketches of “S” in the same pose yesterday as she had been the week before. I didn’t even find another place in the studio to sketch her from. 

1^st: 14”x 17” ink and watercolor wash on Bristol

2^nd: 11:x 14” ink on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Characters

Characters

Daily sketching. 

11”x 11” ink and watercolor wash on cold press

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink

 

Covering a page

Covering a Page

 

Warmup sketches of three-minute poses over shorter gesture poses provided by “B” in a life drawing session not so long ago.

12”x 9” ink on toned paper

Fountain pen: TWSBI ECO EF with Carbon Platinum Ink