I did this charcoal work as a part of the 4th weekly exercise of Let’s Face It 2024. It was taught by Jim Bentley. (He does a demo of this face on his Instagram account.) For the class he used Bristol paper — which I believe is fairly smooth — and also carbon powder applied with brushes, none of which I had. I did my charcoal piece with some willow charcoal, compressed charcoal sticks, and blending stumps. And on Strathmore Charcoal paper, tinted green.
I have finished up 3 faces and am ready to paint them. The first one is on an 11×14 canvas, which I toned with burnt sienna, and then drew in part in pencil last June. Finally finished off the drawing part using willow charcoal. The image is from a Let’s Face It 2018 portrait art “class” (more like an online art experience) from KaraBullockArt.
The second one is on a 9×12 canvas, toned with yellow ochre and clear gesso. I drew this on by hand also earlier this month, using willow charcoal. I’m not sure now where the reference image came from.
Lastly, the third face is based on a photograph I took, and traced on to 300-lb. cold-pressed watercolor, and given a wash of acrylic glazing medium, pyrrole red, and cad-free yellow medium.
This sketch was done from a reference photo of my own.
This charcoal pencil sketch is based on an image by sarahbernier3140 from Pixabay, which I intend to paint at some point soon.
I did this charcoal pencil sketch of a flamingo in my Arteza sketchbook. My intention is to paint it at some point.
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.
This is a sketch of one of my cats which I did with compressed charcoal last fall.
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.
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