Hudson River Fellowship 2011 Part 4

These are some drawings I did at the Fellowship this last July. Most of these were done over a couple sessions. My intention was to explore the precise details and textures, so I could then have access to them while working in the studio.

 

 

Quick Sketching at the AMNH.

Quick sketches done at the American Museum of Natural History. The difficulty of drawing at the museum is the persistent press of the crowds

Animal Sketches April 30 Part 2

Gorilla gestures and friends. Just when you think these guys are sitting still, they up and run off to the other side of the room.

Animal Sketches April 30 Part 1

I've been doing some animal drawing recently. It's an area of study that I've neglected unconsciously. Here's some drawings from the reptile house at the Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City. It's interesting the things you notice when you take some time to draw an animal from life. The iguana's had a good portion of his tail removed at some point, the healed one isn't nearly as long as it should be. And that Chucwalla is missing a foot...

Figure Sketch

Recent 30 minute figure sketch. I used two colors of water soluble colored pencils.

Recent Figure Sketches

I have an hour between the classes I teach at UVU, during that hour Don Seegmiller is kind enough to let me sit in and sketch in his class while I wait. These are some of the better results from the last couple of months. Each is between 30 and 50 minutes in duration

 This one is from a warm up with J. Kirk Richard's painting group last Wednesday. I used two watersoluble color pencils and a white chalk pencil to do this one.