Recent drawings

Posted: May 3rd, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Life Drawing, TSA, Uncategorized | No Comments »

The top one is from Sunday’s 3h pose at the TSA, which I haven’t attended in a long time. I was a bit rusty! The rest of the drawings vary from 5 to 15 min.

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Recent short poses

Posted: April 5th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Life Drawing, TSA | No Comments »

The male model was Denis, but I can’t remember the name of the woman (new model). Poses’ lengths vary between 10-20 minutes.

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Weekend gesture drawings

Posted: March 15th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Life Drawing, TSA | No Comments »

From the open life drawing held at OCAD and the TSA this weekend. The models were Serenity and Robyn and poses vary between 1, 5, 15 and 20 minutes.

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TSA Sunday: Amanda

Posted: February 28th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Life Drawing, TSA | No Comments »

Pose time: 10 min, 15 min, 18 min

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Saturday at OCAD: Pat

Posted: February 26th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Life Drawing | No Comments »

I’m back from my February break (I had a great time hiking in Gatineau Park and skating on the Rideau Canal in Ottawa), and it’s time to get back to work. I attended the open life drawing at OCAD this morning. Pat was the model, and poses range from 10 to 20 minutes.

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Recent life drawing

Posted: February 14th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Life Drawing, TSA | No Comments »
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Getting back into it

Posted: January 30th, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Life Drawing | No Comments »

I went to OCAD for the open life drawing yesterday. I am quite rusty, having drawn but little during the past term. I had a good time nonetheless. Lengths vary from 1 minute to 20 minutes.

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Master Class with Brian Smith

Posted: December 9th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Life Drawing, Workshop | No Comments »

This Fall, I was in Brian Smith‘s Master Class in Life Drawing. Here are some of the highlights of the course.

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In the first drawing, we added a drift to enhance the gesture in the contour drawing. In the second one, the drift was drawn first and the contour drawing was placed over top. We didn’t know what the gesture would be when drawing the drift. I was lucky that the model took a pose that went well with my orange wave. Then the model danced and we drew as she danced.

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The first drawing is a memory exercise. The model, Ed, took a 10 min pose in a separate room. We had to walk to the room, study the pose, walk back to our easel and draw as much as we could remember. We could do this as many times as we wanted over the 10 min. I did pretty well! In the other two we played with ratios in composition, where we would only draw a certain percentage of the model filling a certain percentage of the background.

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This was interesting for me: we had to design and simplify the figure. I had mixed results, but here are the two best.

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For these drawings, we had to fragment the figure, zooming in to crop the composition in some unusual way. I played with line and value, taking advantage of these exercises to explore the skin folds and muscle contours of Murray’s form.


Recent Drawings

Posted: November 18th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Life Drawing | 3 Comments »

I haven’t been drawing much this term. But here are a couple of recent 3h life drawings.

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Some life drawings

Posted: October 6th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Life Drawing, Portrait, TSA | 2 Comments »

Here are some recent drawings. The top one is of Denis, drawn at Brian Smith‘s studio on Tuesday afternoon. It was a 3h sitting.

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These next ones are from the TSA last Sunday morning. I haven’t drawn for a while, so it was a bit rough. Here are the best of the session. The model is Anthony. I had planned to practice drawing the face, but Antony gave me his back view for most of the session!

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