Archives for December 2007
Individual Studies for Figures and Sea
27 December 2007 | art, drawing | No Responses
Following the current line of sketches, these last pages in my current sketchbook (In a rare concurrence, the sketchbook ran out of pages as the year 2007 ran out of days) are devoted to the two figures individually. The couple are doing a kind of orbit in my head. They turn in various configurations, and I see in them a constellation in motion. This will become fixed on the canvas later, but it is a challenge to find the greatest expression of this couple on the rocks with the sea lapping at them.
Below is the upper half of the male figure, looking down this time.
Below is the male figure leaning back on the rocks.
Below is the female figure, in partial torso view, leaning into the other.
More Variations of Two Figures and Ocean
26 December 2007 | art, drawing | No Responses
Continuing in the vien of the last post, I did a number of variations a few nights ago of the Double Figure and Ocean composition. I am thinking through the current painting, but also looking ahead at perhaps a larger canvas on this theme.
This version is fairly routine, but the left hand figure, the male, is in a posture I wanted to further explore.
Below I just tried flipping the male figure to face the left. The up elbow is odd in that here he does not rest his head in that hand.
Two Versions of a Composition
6 December 2007 | art, drawing | No Responses
This is a sketch for a painting that I am currently working on. The painting is underway, so this is concurrent rather than a preparatory sketch. It is a place to work out ideas and then take those ideas to the canvas (approx. 90×65 cm or 36×28 in). The composition is two figures by water, reclining inverted so the head of one is toward the top of the canvas and that of the other toward the bottom half. These two versions show a variation on the left hand figure. In the version above, her head is closer to the shoulder of the other figure.
In this version her head is resting on the thigh of the other. The painting is currently along this version. I am interested in the upright leg on the left, which makes a close, crowded area against the more open center and right.
Marcella
3 December 2007 | art, drawing, portraits | No Responses
Marcella is a friend who came to model for our portrait class and wore a hat lent to us by Lilo Hats of Newport. She had not ever modeled before, but the hat fit comfortably and Marcella was a natural. Thanks to both her and Lilo Hats for contributing to the class. This sketch was done as I wandered about the studio checking everyone’s progress. I really engage in a piece that someone well known to me has posed for. It makes the context enriched and gives me a lot to work from. It’s funny; after awhile one begins to look at everyone else with one eye toward painting or drawing them.
