Live at the Jazz Showcase
Caught Larry Coryell wit Paul Wertico and Larry Gray at The Jazz Showcase in Chicago. Terrific performance by a hopped up trio. Had a decent vantage point with enough overhead light to see what I was...
View ArticleNew Year’s Day – 11 1/2 Hours of Drawing
Woke early, made it downtown and into The Palette & Chisel by 7:30 AM, where I drew till 7 PM that night. Knocked out some sketching on the train to and fro as well. Opening drawing is DeLawn,...
View ArticleIt’s The Dead Of Winter And Folks Are Still Taking Their Clothes Off.
Trying to stay in the fray. Out drawing a lot in cafes and at life drawing sessions. Felt a need to bring back a little color after working with predominately blue and black. Maybe that sparked me a...
View ArticleWho Dat?
Portraiture is tuff enuff and admittedly, I struggle with catching a likeness of the subject at hand. Even when I pose someone, who can hold still, and I have loads of time, I just as often run right...
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Flew down to San Antonio for a week of work & play in central Texas. Got a break from the weather in Illinois and chewed me some bar-b-cue. Finished the Pentalic book and am plowing thru...
View ArticleBean Heads
Okay, I spent a butt load of time in coffee shops. I rarely drink the stuff. Have in the past. That and horse troughs full of hot chocolate. More so the later. But I’m largely a tea tipper now, and the...
View ArticleSlung Into September
Made it late and left early to the Palette & Chisel’s 12 hour life drawing marathon. Didn’t come away with anything stellar. Been consumed with buying, packing, and moving to new digs and will...
View ArticleWinter Glimpses
Vintur ist icummin in, lowdly sing the thrush. It’s here for real. Maintaining a regular practice of catching scenes and studies in public, in coffee shops, eateries, and on public transit systems....
View ArticleTourin’ the Southlands
One of the country’s largest kilns, the Anagama kiln at Montevalo University. I was so smitten with this place that I managed to walk off with just my sketchbook: leaving behind my backpack in which I...
View ArticleAlaskan Return
After 57 years, I finally return to the Land of The Midnight Sun. Glorious light. Flowers going crazy in long luminous days. Met up with some of the local talent for a plein aire event and a...
View ArticleUsing an Appropriate Range of Drawing Tools
So, at my demos and workshops, and for the upcoming workshop at the USk Chi Seminar July 9th, I will stress the value of a range of pens, brushes and mediums so that you don’t overwork your tool. As...
View ArticleHair & There
A selection of head and hair studies while out drawing in public. A few friends graciously held still for me, but most were captured while drawing in transit, in cafes, airports, and a couple during...
View ArticleHeading Out
For the 5th year, I will head out across the country, this time trekking down the middle, from the mountains to the Mississippi, over the Oglalla and amber waves of grain, to sketch and share craft and...
View ArticleThe Girls In The Balcony
Though my lodging accommodations in Cedar Falls may have lacked grace and refinement, downtown had plenty of charm. As I enjoyed a hot chocolate and baked goods made on the premises at Cup of Joe, I...
View ArticleHeads, From Here & There
Just some heads. Some witnessed and drawn on site. Some started in public and finished later. Some are from sculpture. Some just made up. Various inks on various sketchbooks.
View ArticleBlu Nude
Practice. It must be done. I was a weekly regular at area venues for drawing from life. For various reasons, I haven’t pursued the practice of drawing nude figures from life and it shows in some recent...
View ArticleA Wee Bit Of Life Drawing
Just drawing the full figure from life enough these days. So this past Thursday and Friday I put in a little time but still got caught up in the partials. Steven Assael happened to be at the Palette...
View ArticleMemorial Day and Nakedness Everywhere I Look
Once more into the breach! Memorial Day. A sober day of remembrance of and for those who sacrificed for a higher goal. Devotion. I’ve spent that day for the last 15 years at the Palette & Chisel...
View ArticleRecent Figure Drawings from The Palette & Chisel
Heading to The Palette and Chisel’s Labor Day 12 hour Life Drawing Marathon in two days and feeling very rusty. Posting a few nudes and life drawings from the past couple months. I’ll put up stuff from...
View ArticleNew Year, New Nudes
For such an unstructured lad as myself, annual events and the observing of rituals play an important role in accomplishments. Three times a year for the past decade, I have gone to The Palette &...
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