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
Going through the sketch books again and thinking about what I drew and why. I am mostly just playing around trying to get my pen to flow with my eyes and what I am seeing. Anyway I uploaded a few… I have lots, I will have to try to post them more consistently.
I spent a couple hours one day last week hanging a dozen of my pieces at the cafe at the Landmark Center in St. Paul. I took a few pictures as I was finishing up. These will be on display there through the month of September and August. Landmark Center Cafe Hours: Monday – Friday … Read more
This is a painting I did from another photograph from one of my sons. I find it a powerful idea that depicts a brief time in my life when baseball was what we did. Remnants of brief periods in a life watching four young people grow from new born to adult. I decided … Read more
I decided I would post a couple partial pages from my session at Art Works Eagan’s figure drawing session this past Saturday. This is a tremendous opportunity for those of us “south of the river” as they say, to spend some time drawing from real life models. The first page here started with a few … Read more
I have been lucky enough to spend a great deal of my adult life working on and around Burntside Lake near Ely Minnesota. I have seen many slow spring meltings of the last of the stubborn ice and the slow closing up again in the late fall of a lake that refuses to thaw or … Read more
Maybe it’s normal to start thinking about things like beaches this time of year, especially in a year like this where winter doesn’t seem to want to give up. But that probably has nothing to do with this. For some reason I just found myself working out some sketches of a child on the beach… … Read more