More Portraits

Portraits

More portraits from Portrait Drawing Monday Sessions at Space 157 (our studio on E Main St)

Medium: Prismacolor pencils on colored paper or matboard.











Three for now. More later.

Commission: Heirloom Tomatoes

Here is a drawing of some juicy heirloom tomatoes that a friend commissioned as a wedding gift for his wife. By the time I was done, I was having to invent most of the biggest tomato due to rotting. Prismacolor pencil on toned paper.

Monday Night Portrait Sessions

In August 2009, Friday Arts Project (mostly Stephen Crotts and I, and two to four other regulars at other times) began meeting in a dark room with one light shining on a friend or family member or practical stranger to practice drawing the human face. A few months after we started, we had enough work to put together a show, and we called it Countenance One. I have literally dozens of portraits from drawing one almost every week for the past year and a half. Here is the most recent portrait:







I might post others from time to time.
I usually draw with Prismacolor pencils on a medium-value matboard or paper, usually a chromatic gray or something between brown and another color. (Brownish pink, for example) All the drawings were made in 2 hours or a little less.

After doing enough of these drawings I've noticed that I'm about twice as fast as I was when we started practicing. I used to not even get both eyes in, much less something indicating the shoulder, values, much development of the hair. I'd say this has been a pretty valuable weekly exercise for me.

Studio Fundraiser Show

Space 157 is having a fundraiser show in the Loading Dock gallery in the Gettys Center on Main St. of Rock Hill, SC, this Thursday, Aug. 26 at 6:30pm. Here are my entries:

Commissioned by Carolina Ethanol Partnership

I have a friend who has started a business recently, with the above title. You can check it out here. Right now they are investigating growing kelp in the ocean near Charleston, SC to produce ethanol from it.
Two things that CEP wanted to show were a curtain/fence device that would keep the kelp from floating out to sea, and a sonic repellent device to drive marine life away from the kelp during harvest time so no animals are harmed.

The floating/anchored fence:




The sonic repellent:




Process: Sketched, penned by hand, then scanned in and handled in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

Pumpkins: bought by a fancy lady

These are some recent things I've made- sorry for the low quality cell phone pictures.