Succulent Saturday - more critter sketches

More playing in the sketchbook - 

Charcoal and pastel on toned paper, with cut paper.

RIP David Bowie...

As the World Falls Down......

...Though we're strangers 'til now,
We're choosing the path
Between the stars.
I'll leave my love
Between the stars.....

WIP Wednesday -

Still enjoying experimenting with these mixed media portraits in my sketchbook.

After resolving the face, I then try to experiment with some different materials and approaches to determine what I want to do....

(Some of the variations I tried out...)

This is what I ended up with.

WIP Wednesday -

The sketchbook experiment this week. (Way more purple in person. Will have to get a more color-balanced scan...)

WIP Wednesday -

The piece I've been experimenting with this week (graphite, pastel and cut paper).

WIP Wednesday

It's been another hot week.

We've been trying to cope by going out to air conditioned venues midday (multiple matinees, anyone?), and I've been staying down in the studio where it's a bit cooler all evening. So I've been drawing and/or painting pretty much every day...

In the art experiment front, I thought I'd try working on some mens......

WIP Wednesday - Pencil Stuff...

I've had so much on my plate of late, that very little art is happening. This is one of the few things I've been able to squeeze in - halfway through a pencil study on toned paper.....

Figure Friday

Toned drawing study today... Cutie-pie smolder!

Figure Friday -

Start of a face study....

Life drawing is on hiatus for the summer. Going to try to be doing something figure related on Fridays anyway!

Figure Friday -

Long pose day. Charcoal pencils on toned paper.

Music Monday - As the World Falls Down

One last black paper experiment. Jareth/Bowie seemed an appropriate Halloween-ish subject matter...

And I love his ballroom scene from Labyrinth. Great costumes, fabulous masks, great song. My favorite scene from the movie - 

WIP Wednesday - experiments

I've been experimenting with drawing on black paper - 

It's harder to do than one would think at first glance....

But given that Halloween is quickly approaching, the imagery felt ap propos to play with...

WIP Wednesday - more toned drawing

Steampunk LRRH - Prismacolor drawing pencil on Strathmore grey paper.

Figure Friday - for fun...

I vowed to quit working on this by bedtime tonight (other things that I need to get back to).

She ended up rather more glamorous than I had intended, but she kinda went the direction she wanted. Interesting exercise at any rate. 

WIP Wednesday - tentacle head

This was supposed to be a quickie fun-sketch. Is turning into a Big Sketchbook toned drawing...

Rather reminiscent of the state of my brain at the moment!

Figure Friday -

Long pose day. Lovely model - and much less scowly than I have inadvertently made him here.

Charcoal pencils on really terrible trash paper that would not allow white pencil application....

Figure Friday -

Still lap-top less... Still struggling with computer normalicy, but we'll see if I can at least post these?

Long pose day (this was about 2 hours). Experimented with toned paper - a first for me in a live session. Great model, but there was enough shifting between sittings that different body parts are kind of all over....

Fun though... Want to do more on this surface.