Author: cathmary1030
Drawing Figures: More Practice
Practice: Drawing Human Figures
Here’s a few pages from my sketchbook where I was drawing gestural human figures, with the object of maintaining proportions but not focusing on detail. Getting the gist, I guess.
Quick Sketch: Rose in a Vase
As with the study of my cat in yesterday’s post, this rose in a vase done while I visited my mom was sketched in compressed charcoal.
One of those 20 minute things.
Quick Sketch: Cat on the Stair
This is a sketch of one of my cats which I did with compressed charcoal last fall.
Model in Charcoal
Today I was actually painting from a demo painting of martinis in How to Paint Fast Loose & Bold by Patti Mollica. But I don’t want to risk copyright issues so I’m not posting it. (Besides, you can check out the real deal in the book, which I can assure you is much better than my effort, lol!)
So I’m posting a charcoal drawing I did last year while I get to painting based on my own stuff.
Study: Brown Eggs in a Bowl
I wanted to try a monotonal work; this was done on a 6×8 canvas. The painting is based on an image by experimentMR from Pixabay.
I think it looks better at a distance.
Quick Study: Dec 2015 Early Evening
I did this quick study from memory and on a 6×6 canvas panel based on one of my own photos. I had previously underpainted the panel in an Ultramarine Blue-Titanium White mix, which seriously affected the magenta paint.
Quick Study: December Evening Sky
For this study, I used another of my own photos — this one taken one evening in early December of 2021 from my backyard. The Moon was actually a crescent at the time, but I had a cheap smartphone at the time with a lousy camera, so it looks full, and I carried on with that in my painting. Jupiter is shining above the Moon, and Venus is near the silhouette of the chimney.
This was done on a 4×6 piece of 300 lb. cold-pressed watercolor paper. The house silhouette is blue-black, and the sky was painted in tints of dioxazine purple. The Moon, Jupiter and Venus are painted in a yellow-white mix.
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