Posts tagged 'shadow'

My Livelihood Gets in the Way of My Art

01/26/2012 - 5:35 pm
2012-0125 Gesture

The activities of my life are an extension of who I am right now, and so the amount of time I have available to devote to my art is limited.  Knowing that I have made that choice does not stop me from sometimes resenting it.  I have a full-time job, owning and managing a small service business, and I have ...

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Posted under Figure Drawing | Additional Tags: artist, Colleen Duffley, Figure Drawing, pose & Studio b | Permalink

Props and Themes in Figure Drawing

08/11/2011 - 3:21 pm
2011-0809 Wearing hat

Our model for Figure Drawing at Studio b. this week brought a black hat that I just loved.  She used it in almost all of the warm-up poses, but then for the longer poses,  she switched to a sequence without the hat.  Fist she posed just standing in the pool, then wetting her hair under one ...

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Posted under Figure Drawing | Additional Tags: Colleen Duffley, Figure Drawing, India Hicks, model, pose & Studio b | Permalink

Figure Drawing with Pencil Wash

11/19/2010 - 11:15 am
Red Dress Back 625

I rarely use color to show “local color”, that is, the actual color of the model’s skin and hair.  I have more fun when I draw light and shadow.  But this week the model at Studio b. wore a red slip that caught the light in exquisite ways.  Red just demands to be noticed.

I warmed up ...

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Posted under Figure Drawing | Additional Tags: conte, hot press, light, nupastel, washable graphite & watercolor pencil | Permalink

Seeing in Black and White

11/11/2010 - 6:16 pm
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This week in Figure Drawing at Studio b., Heather Clements instructed us to focus on light patterns and shadow patterns.  We worked with strong lighting, toning only the darks, all the same value, and leaving the paper untoned to show the lighted areas.  This high contrast lighting is very powerful, with much ...

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Posted under Figure Drawing | Additional Tags: Figure Drawing, Heather Clements, high contrast, light, patterns, silhouette & Studio b | Permalink | Comments (2)