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Birds and Boulders: new drawings
I’ve been hearing complaints that this hasn’t been a great migrant year (unless you happened to be in Central Park this spring- they had a splendid run) but to my eyes, it’s been glorious. An hour...
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Drawing at the Edge of History
Oh the chimney’s fallen down and the roof’s all caved in Lettin’ in the sunshine and the rain And the only friend I’ve got now is that good old dog of mine And the little old log cabin in the …...
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The Artist Emerges
After many months, I just looked up and realized just how late it’s gotten- while I was busy, the forest changed from a symphony of green to an arboreal fiesta of reds and yellows. People are stuffed...
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Binoculars…bugspray…sketchbook?
If you want to make a birder laugh, pull out your Altoids tin, and instead of offering a mint, use it to paint a bird. That’s how I spent five days at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival in...
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The Best of 2011, A Motmot’s View
1) Best Rediscovered Antique Food: Apples and Cider. If there’s a characteristic product of New England, it’s not maple syrup, it’s apples and cider. In drawing the ruins of cider mills, I obsess over...
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Friday Figures- pencil gestures and an oil sketch
65 minute pose, oil paint washes on Arches oil-primed paper, 15″ x 22″ 6B pencil in Stillman & Birn Alpha Series 8.5″ x 11″ hardbound sketchbook 25 minute pose, 6B pencil on Stillman & Birn...
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Over the Cliff with Georgia O’Keeffe
“The cliffs over there, you look at it and it’s almost painted for you, you think until you try”. Georgia O’Keeffe’s beautifully strange formations aren’t necessarily the subjective stylings of a...
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Friday Figures
Oil sketch on Arches primed paper 22″ x 15″. I really like the oil paint, or maybe it’s just the fumes. Used ultramarine blue, burnt umber and terra rosa thinned with turpenoid. 1 hour pose. Oil...
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Friday Figures- Drawing Joy
6B pencil on Stillman & Birn 8 1/2″ x 11″ sketchbook, Alpha Series. Going for form as defined by its shadow. 4 minute pose. 6B pencil in Stillman & Birn Alpha Series sketchbook, 8 1/2 x 11. 4...
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From a pile of old drawings
Striped owls, oil on paper, 15″ x 22″. Snow is slowly printing out a Christmas-card wonderland in the front yard, while a hopeful cardinal sings from the rat’s nest of our dead trumpet vine. Even this...
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Friday Figures, and Great Art in Tulsa
If you find yourself anywhere near Tulsa between now and March 24, try to get to the Gilcrease Museum and catch the Edgar Payne (1883-1947) retrospective, The Scenic Journey. I just got home and want...
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Friday Figures- Man with fur hat
A rare male model posed for us today, all buttoned up and dignified under an oversized fur hat (I would have guessed fox, or maybe coyote). I imagined him as a Russian come in from the cold, or maybe a...
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Follow the River
Late day light on the Canadian River- pastel 18.5″ x 12.5″. This spot is on the property of a sand company in Goldsby. The owner turned out to be a really nice guy who didn’t kick us out, and invited...
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Friday Figures-strike a good attitude when all else fails
My drawing today was not exceptional, although our model was excellent, with a long, lanky body and dark, tousled hair capping the shaved sides of her head. The oil sketch started off well enough....
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Friday Figures- Posing and Reposing.
After a long night of doing whatever models do after dark, she curled up on a pile of cushions and crumpled satin raiments, and slumbered untroubled in a roomful of searching eyes, sleeping through the...
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Little Skyscraper on the Prairie
Price Tower, Bartlesville, OK. Frank Lloyd Wright’s only high-rise. Think of it as a wonderfully whimsical sculpture, a green copper landmark in the sky, a “tree that escaped the crowded forest”, as...
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Friday Figures- DIY Family Portraits
One of the sweetest things you can do with your dad, swapping stories while sketching his portrait. My dad was a dear to sit for me. He’s a retired math professor getting over a cold, somewhat amused...
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Friday Figures- a sleeping redhead
Oil sketch on Arches primed paper; 20″ x 15″, 2 1/2 hour pose. A little serenity to start your weekend. Happy Friday.
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A Quetzal, in the Flesh
These are NOT resplendent quetzals. Close, but no cigar. (Violaceous trogons drawn from life in Panama, graphite and pastel on Rives BFK paper, 11″ x 14″) All I wanted for my birthday was a Resplendent...
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Friday Figures- Costumed Models
Sometimes you covet the costume. I would have killed for those heels. 1 hr pose, watercolor over pencil, 8 1/2″ x 11″ on Stillman & Birn Gamma Series sketchbook Life drawing with costumed models...
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