I realize after these sessions, how much fun they are . It’s the one time every couple weeks when the only thing I have to do is just draw. This is the AWE Session from 10/12/19. I am never real happy with my drawings but I always feel like I am growing a bit in … Read more

As part of their Eagan art block, Art Works had as free figure drawing session this past Saturday, 9/14, along with the open house at their building. It was a little different than the usual figure drawing sessions as there we people walking around looking at the art on the walls and talking. And being … Read more

My entry into the 2019 Burnsville Visual Arts “Art Fete” show at the Ames Center this year started out as just some small experiments in oils. I took three small pieces of plywood, 8×10, and started with a limited pallet of three colors, a different set of colors for each one. These sat around for … Read more

The figure drawing session at AWE on Saturday, 2/9/19, went well I thought. I just grabbed some crayola markers, these are some things left over from kids etc. they have been sitting around forever. They are sort of half dried up which makes the nice for sketching I think. I grabbed a few colors and … Read more

This is a quick sketch of a scene in and old barn that belongs to my sister and her husband Dewey out in the country south of the Twin Cities. We often have our family thanksgiving get togethers out there and I usually try to find some time to go out and poke around in … Read more

After worrying that we were not going to have enough people signing up for the winter sessions we ended up with a record turnout, I heard someone say there were 14 artists there. Lots of folks I never saw before. Very cool. I am still working away at this trying learn to see and express … Read more

I have found that a hardboard, or Masonite product with a gesso covering sanded smooth makes a great surface to draw on. The problem is the preparation is tedious and often you discover a rough spot after you start drawing and there really is no way to go back and sand it some more at … Read more

Another great time yesterday at the AWE figure drawing session. I feel like I am improving, or at least I have some better days occasionally.  We started, as usual, with 30 second poses and then some one and two minutes. These are very faint, I should have switched to charcoal or a 6b but I … Read more

I added a few more sketches to the sketch gallery… I was listening to My Back Pages tonight and playing Jimmy as Barns tends to do, I heard one of my favorites by him. this is just good stuff:

We had a good model at the Sept 27th Art Works Eagan figure drawing session. Nice young man, very enthusiastic about doing a good job for us. We started again with 30 second poses. I am working here on an 18 X 24 newsprint pad, just trying to get the gestures. 30 seconds goes fast: … Read more