end of summer roses

thistles

Sea Turtle

Apple orchard

yellow onion

yellow onion drawing

Red rose

Summer Rose

A beautiful red rose to mark the first day of summer.

Fantasy Self Portrait - 1993 - Watercolor & Charcoal Pencil

jade plant

Getting back into regular sketching in my sketchbook – this one features a small branch of my sprawling jade plant. Perched on the windowsill, Jade was glowing in the afternoon sunlight, poised for praise. I used a Staedtler, Mars Lumograph B pencil; then a mechanical one for added definition. Staedtler makes very consistent high quality drafting/drawing pencils. I like using the HB, B, 2B for sketching. Some of the softer ones (4B and up) smudge too easily, since I’m inclined to rest my hand on my artwork.

Jade plant

New Year's Day sketch

Barn at Flume

figure drawing

Here is a recent 15 minute gesture drawing done with vine charcoal, and charcoal pencil.

gesture drawings

Gestural drawings convey the line of action and movement of a pose. Shown here are some very quick gestures of a male model done using a sanguine conte crayon on drawing paper. This model's imaginative poses helped to inspire me --- inspiration is sometimes hard to conjur following a long day's work and hectic commute to Cabrillo. Alas! The dedicated artist is not easily broken.

seated nude

Sami

This is a drawing of my beautiful cat, Sami. He rarely stays still enough to draw, except when he is asleep. I'm thinking about using this as the subject for the next assignment which is an interior/exterior scene, featuring a person, pet or object in the foreground.