Figure Drawings From Last Nights Session

One Minute Poses

 One Minute Poses

 Three Minute Pose

 Six Minute Pose

 Ten Minute Pose

 Ten Minute Pose

Ten Minute Pose

Some Recent Figure Drawings

I have been so busy posting still-lifes and waves and other paintings that I have been slacking off on posting new drawings! I go figure drawing at least once a week, sometimes twice. Everything I like about my still life paintings I learned from figure drawing! I must admit though, out of everything I post, I am always a little hesitant to post figure drawings because I know two of my figure drawing instructors pop in and have a look here from time to time...Of course I would always welcome their input. Here are just a few out of the stacks I had to go through!

These are from the Thursday Night Drawing Session at Stuart Art Supply in Stuart, FL.

1 Minute Poses

5 min

5 Min Poses

  

 

10 Minutes

20 min

20 Minutes

Just in case anyone was wondering most of my gesture figure drawings are done on Borden And Riley Ledger Bond Paper, with Col-Erase Indigo Blue Pencil.

Sometimes I use other pencils as well but that one is my favorite.

St. Augustine Figure Painting

Last night I went to an open figure drawing session in St. Augustine, a beautiful town on the coast of Florida. We started with five 3-minute gestures and then a long pose. I only had a huge 18 x 36 inch canvas with me. My plan was to do a couple of small paintings on it. The pose the model took just happened to be perfect for the whole thing. I started my drawing the way I usually do. The first drawing took about an hour. Then I went to a darker color and re-drew the areas which needed weight. Then a few of the bright lights. The spotlight was behind the model which is why there is such a sharp bright light along the edge.

 Unfortunately, the model thought that the break time was equal to the posing time. Felt like 15 on and 15 off, and the gesture drawings ate up 15 minutes at the begining. With twenty minutes left I had only a drawing and the lights down. I knew I wouldn't be able to finish the figure in that amount of time and I liked the drawing as it was. I decided to paint as much of the background as I could and surround the figure in whatever time was left.

The above is the end result. I say it is about an hour and a half to two hours of actual painting time. It was quick and rushed and fun and i'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.