Who Dat?
Portraiture is tuff enuff and admittedly, I struggle with catching a likeness of the subject at hand. Even when I pose someone, who can hold still, and I have loads of time, I just as often run right...
View ArticleWinter Romp w/ Urban Sketchers Chicago
Shot down to the Cultural Center for some indoor/outdoor sketching with a group of about 15 f Chicago’s growing chapter of Urban Sketchers.
View ArticleToes in the Sand, Drink in His Hand
Hey, who needs a soap box when you got a beer and a beach chair?! My pal Bob holding the floor over politics, the financial sector, and bigotry lakeside last summer. I’ve had my share of problems with...
View ArticleHangin’ With the Beanheads
Ran about from one cafe to the next over the last 2 days sketching the imbibers. I realized I have been scanning the drawings in at low res so I upped the dpi so you can feel and see the paper’s tooth....
View ArticleFebruary, Drawin’ in the depths of Winter
Labored over an illustrating gig, got back in court to sketch at a murder trial, and drawing out and about both solo and with friends. No change in materials though the smaller drawings are in a...
View ArticleFriday Flesh
Friday nite life drawing session. What better time to see a spot of flesh than in the depths of Winter. Justin is a good model. Very muscular, light produces definitive shadows on him, important at...
View ArticleTouring the Twinkies
Spent a week working and haunting the streets and skyways of Minnesota’s Twin Cities. Made good use of the new White Big Brush Pit Artist Pen. Otherwise drew in a Moleskine watercolor book,...
View ArticleAugust Arrives
The comment we all hear as folks look over our shoulders is,”I cain’t even draw straight lines!” I’ve never been the biggest fan of straight lines either. Then even when you put yourself before the job...
View ArticleSlung Into September
Made it late and left early to the Palette & Chisel’s 12 hour life drawing marathon. Didn’t come away with anything stellar. Been consumed with buying, packing, and moving to new digs and will...
View ArticleTourin’ the Southlands
One of the country’s largest kilns, the Anagama kiln at Montevalo University. I was so smitten with this place that I managed to walk off with just my sketchbook: leaving behind my backpack in which I...
View ArticleSpring Has Arrived??
No Nudes, decided to feature some buildings as I’m preparing for the Chicago Urban Sketching Seminar in June. With the turn in the weather, drawing outdoors became less demanding. Worked on drawings...
View ArticleAlaskan Return
After 57 years, I finally return to the Land of The Midnight Sun. Glorious light. Flowers going crazy in long luminous days. Met up with some of the local talent for a plein aire event and a...
View ArticleAppropriate Distraction
Taking a a break from thinking too hard. Channelling fabulous comic book artist, actually the Sunday Funnies, George Wunder. Drawings done in an old ledger book with ink, mostly Faber-Castell Pitt...
View ArticleRecent Nudes
Haven’t been drawing from the model much for some months. Caught the figure above while conducting Urban Sketching workshops in Chicago. I was at the Palette & Chisel and saw Larry Paulsen so I ran...
View ArticleSummertime Loitering in Chicagoland
By by the Block Museum on the campus of Nortwestern Univ after high winds and a hail storm blew thru. Movie night at Pulaski Park, Chicago. Faber-Castell Pitt Pens, various fountain pens, Platinum...
View ArticleFair Bound
In to the Twin Cities for demos and the Minnesota State Fair. Packing plenty of drawing gear though I’ll be working in monotone, may regret that decision when I come face to face with the butter...
View ArticleFlesh Time @ the Palette & Chisel
In need of some life drawing on an unseasonably warm mid December eve, I went to the old haunt, Palette & Chisel. Drawn in a toned Strathmore sketchbook and a lined Paper Blanks journal with...
View ArticleDrawing the Bahd
Catching up with posting some of the drawings from the last 3 months. I haven’t been keeping a regular practice of drawing from nude models and I think that shows at times in the uneven examples of...
View ArticleHeads, Heads, & More Heads
This week, I’m throwing up a collection of head studies and anonymous portraits captured while drawing in public, largely on public transit. Making use of the same tool kit I...
View ArticleLet The Noggins Roll
More head studies from the last dozen years. Most drawings are on ruled paper and in ledger books drawn with a wide array of inks. And, while a couple of the drawings are from my imagination or after...
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