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Friday Figures- The Cycle of Life Needs a Rack, Too 10 Aug 2013 | 10:02 am
Today’s figure: a Flamenco dancer on a cigarette break, or a nude dressed in simple peasant garb. Please create your own narrative. Oil on a 16″ x 20″ gray toned canvas painted in raw umber, terra ros...
I Drew a Butterfly and Learned Something New 30 Jul 2013 | 10:39 pm
Gulf fritillary butterfly fresh from the chrysalis. How many legs? Watercolor over pencil, S&B Alpha Series sketchbook 8 1/2″ x 11″ It surprised me, too. Insects have six legs, and butterflies are in...
Friday Figures: Ouch. 27 Jul 2013 | 03:58 am
Three hour pose, with rest breaks for circulatory restoration. Oil on toned canvas, 20″ x 16″ It was my fault. I was allowed to suggest a pose today, and said, How about this one? As the session prog...
Your Natural History Moment 23 Jul 2013 | 09:48 pm
Passion flower, it turns out, is the host plant for a particular butterfly larvae. Watercolor over pencil on 8 1/2″ x 11″ Stillman & Birn Alpha sketchbook. When I planted native passion flower on the...
Friday Figures- Brother, can you paradigm (shift)? 20 Jul 2013 | 04:16 am
Reaching for the new. Oil on toned canvas, 16″ x 20″. She had been working on this picture for so long that she had felt her style shifting as different areas of the painting neared completion, and n...
Friday Figures: Learning From a New Master 13 Jul 2013 | 05:30 am
Drawing at the drawing demo; Mitsuno Reedy demonstrates charcoal portraiture in Midwest City, while I sketch from the front row. Moleskine 5″ x 7″, mechanical pencil. Mitsuno Reedy has long been a sh...
Friday Figures- A Model’s Moods 5 Jul 2013 | 09:01 pm
A nude falls backward onto the couch in this classic Victorian faint, as artists scramble for smelling salts and turpentine. Oil wash over graphite on Arches oil-primed paper, 13″ x 10″. 3 hour pose. ...
Friday Figures- Street Sketches Benefit Tornado Victims 29 Jun 2013 | 02:39 am
Oklahoma City lunch hour crowd lines up around the block for a tasty taco lunch (with $10 donation) by celebrity chef Rick Bayless at his pop-up taqueria in Leadership Square. My sketch set up doesn’t...
Friday- Feathers or Figures? Feathers. 21 Jun 2013 | 07:12 pm
In a recent post about chestnut-headed oropendolas, I promised to get back to you with better (published) information, and after some searching found The Nesting Habits of Wagler’s Oropendola (Zarhync...
Friday Feathers- Drawing The Motmot 14 Jun 2013 | 05:18 pm
The motmot embodies the mystery of the tropics, an invisible voice behind the jungle’s green curtain. Secretive, it sometimes hides in plain view, relying on stillness for camouflage. The motmot is a ...
