more open drawing figures

figures from open drawing

Open drawing time is from 7 pm to 10pm every monday and tuesday. It allows people time to just draw from life models. no expectations or limitations. Here are some of my favorite drawings i composed during this time

growing up

my mom at age 5, 12, 20

My dad at age 25 and 50

advanced life drawing study fall '08

The Dynamics of Growing Old

Given the models we generally have access to in our life drawing classes, we are usually studying healthy young adults. I have (like others most likely) become all too familiar,and comfortable, with this seeing as I too am a healthy young adult. That's not to say that I have never taken on the challenge of drawing a young child or an elderly, and enjoyed it, but my plan for this study is to take these challenges to a whole new level.
I'm sure everyone can remember, at some point in their life, stumbling across an old family album on their grandmas bookshelf. Seeing pictures of our mother or father when they were our age can be a truly exciting and remember full experience. It is amazing, the physical changes one goes through in a lifetime. It is easy to track these changes when you have a year to year update laid out in front of you. My goal is to study these changes by drawing specific persons at different periods of their life, in hopes to learn more on how we change over time. With that knowledge I will take on the challenge of predicting the future or seeing into the past by drawing what a person will look like in 20 years, and/or maybe even 40 years. While I know there is no immediate way of learning how accurate I am, I can however reverse this process as well. I will attempt to draw what a person looked like 20 or 40 years ago, without the prior knowledge, to test my skills.
In this day and age we have computers and programs that can digitally predict what someone will look like in the future, however I believe that these studies will do more to help me learn how are bodies and features operate and transform overtime, thus increases my skills as an artist.

falling

These figures come from a series of drawings I did involving life size pastel drawn figures. When taken out of their original context it is to appear that they are simply falling into the unknown. It was part of a succesful expirement using pastel on the rough surface of roofing paper (tar paper)

watercolor paintings

Water color paintings is something that is fairly new to me. These three were my favorites among a series of landscapes I painted while studying abroad in London this past summer('08). I also chose these because I believe they capture the different aspects of london including; a peaceful afternoon sketch afront a beautiful countryside, the coming and going of people amongst a busy tourist area along the River Thames, and a sunday stroll in the park away from the masses.