Art class nude

this is just a 20 min pose. the 1 hr pose is too big for my ity bity scanner

well for the second time, i attended my open life drawing class. this time, with a wee bit of experience under my belt i started drawing like a pro, warming up with the one minute poses, concentrating on parts that i have trouble with, etc. I wanted to scan the 1 hour pose, which is the same from week to week to give the painters in the group a continuous pose to keep working on. but i started from scratch again, and had a plan to rough out the whole body, working on all the proportions, so i didn;t draw a mis shapened dwarf again, and then work on the detail. HA - the parts I got right fixed the previous drawing errors, but I made new ones.....so i went and bought some new pencils and charcols. that should make me sketch better, don't ya think?

What if....musings while sketching -art class

1 min pose sketch....enhanced a bit with a little Photoshop.


"Musings while living"

What if you had a cell phone and it never rang?
What if you landed at a familiar airport, but nobody was there to greet you?
What if you had something important to say, would anyone listen?
What if your friends can't confide their fears and joys to you, would you still confide yours?
What if the hole in your heart never healed, could you try love again?
What if you let hurt overcome emotion, would you still hang on to hurt?
What if you are ready to face your demons, but they left town?
What if hurts never healed?
What if living in the past means your present has not significance?
What if you gave a party , and no one came?
What if you went to a party and you were the only one who came?
What if the parent now has now to become the child?
What if all the conversations you had with people from now on were doomed to be only superficial?
What if you tried to have a heavy conversation, but found you knowledge superficial?
What if you never 'got' poetry, would you still read it?
What if good is not good enough?
What if you did the right thing all your life, but found out it really wasn't right?
What if you realized you took a wrong turn in life, would you fix it?


"my love where ever I go, I take you with me..." Melissa Etheridge

Agony or Ecstasy ..figurative study

A work in progress...getting ready for the class I just signed up for yesterday at the Lorton Workhouse Arts, which is schedule to open this Sept. My class is in Oct...what a deal, I hope, taking art classes about a mile from my house ! Taking figure drawing - looking forward to getting some critiques and instruction . More to follow...:-)

swirls and stars

Idea was original the figure needs work.
Especially the hands...think I will put gloves on all my people so I don't need to draw fingers

Serious Art..again

Ok, once again trying my hand at serious art and expressing my soul...along with trying to find my style, instead of being heavily influenced by the artist I happen to be looking at...

I prob should have taken more time to work on this, a criticism I have had before. I just can't seem to continue to work on a piece and make it better, i just finish it and move on. LOL.

what do you all think....crap, good or work on it ?

another serious Art attempt

An idea I had, and I saw this pose elsewhere and thought I would try to capture the pose and add the draping and of course my sun. Drawing nudes is difficult because getting the muscles and proportions right takes time, patience, practice and talent. I get frustrated and end up just putting clothes on them. But if getting clothes, namely cloth , and the draping and folds of the cloth right, gets to be almost as frustrating as drawing the human body....sigh, perhaps I'll just go back to crayola's and drawing clouds.