LCC SUN Life Drawing - 04/14/13 - Elaine

So this is the second week I have gone to the drawing class at Leeward Community College. I am enjoying it a lot. It is not all that crowded and the lighting is awesome.

Today the model was Elaine, the same model from Zwick studio's on Saturday.

I had a pretty good morning. My favorite of the morning was this one. There is a really nice feel to the drawing.

I am really enjoying the lighting at this class it is making for some really dramatic poses.

When Elaine took the pose, I was struck with how pretty it was. I was ready to do a drawing over another pose, but instead grabbed a fresh piece of paper and began to draw on it. 

There is not much to this pose or drawing, but it works. I sometimes am caught up in trying to add more and more to a page but this is a good example of simple being elegant. Its just more to contemplate and think over.

The blue is really setting off the Burnt Sienna nicely. 

Mark, the professor who is running the class and teaches at LCC, spent a good amount of time changing a burnt out light, then apologizing for the light not being strong enough. I was so impressed with the lighting there regardless. Mark has a theater background and it shows in the lighting.

I like how this page come out. I like how the figures are interacting with one another. I also really like how I rendered the central face. I applied the oil pastel in a very painterly way. I really love the entire left side of the page.
 

This was the second pose of the morning. I am a little unhappy with this sketch. I will probably take some turpentine to it and try again tomorrow.

The last pose was only 15 minutes, so I decided to do a portrait. I am on the fence about this one. It looks good for 15 minutes but still is not all that great.

The  Leeward Community College Sun Life drawing class is located at the campus Art Room. The class begins at 10:30 and will run until 1:30. There is a $10 class fee. 

“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; 

the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” 

~ Plato

Zwick Studio 04/13/2013 - Elaine

 

So, on Saturday I went out to Zwick Studios. The regular model, Betsy, was sick so Billy called a replacement for the session. The replacement was Elaine.

I took a walk down the street to Fisher's Hawaii in downtown to get a canvas. 

I was surprised how everyone at the class didn't know there was a Fisher's downtown. I think I may have spurred a few more painters to use that store.   

I am happy with this painting. I need to put about two more hours into it to get it complete. There is a nice mood to the painting.

Let's see what I can do with this.

Woman at Starbucks

So, I was waiting for some friends and headed over to Starbucks. I decided to draw while I waited.

I, for some reason, toned a bunch of papers in this book. It seems like an odd thing to do because I don't think I planned to use white on the page. Still the tone is light, too, and it leaves a lot of room to play with.

I am debating whether to put something in the background here.

"Be who you are and say what you feel 

because those who mind don't matter 

and those who matter don't mind."

~ Dr. Seuss

Kalani's Handivan

So one day I had to ride with a student on the Handivan. The driver was Kalani. He has giving us a ride before and is one of the most memorable drivers. Always warm, but serious about his work. 

I did this sketch on a long circle we had to make through town. I did manage to get a nice amount of detail in the drawing.

Student Drawings XII

More drawings of Students. Again no names. 

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

 ~ Mark Van Doren

Self Portrait - Hour 1

So it's been a while since I did a self portrait. I started work on this one and this is it after an hour.

Looking at this drawing, I have a couple of things I need to work on.  I need to make the shadows a little darker and refine the half tones on the face. The details of the hair need a little work, there is also something odd with the shape of my hair in this drawing that needs a little work.

I am pretty happy with this drawing. 

"What a man thinks of himself, that is what determines, or rather indicates his fate."

 ~Henry David Thoreau

LCC Sun Life Drawing - 2013/04/07 - Nick

So on Sunday, I decided to go to the figure drawing class at Leeward Community College. I have been having trouble getting to the University of Hawaii Manoa by 8:30 in the morning in order to get to a seat on the lighted side of the model.

I was told about the LCC Sun Life drawing class. I'm assuming the Sun stands for Sunday.

The model was named Nick, it was his first time modeling and he did pretty well for his first time. 

I am happy with these gesture drawings. They came out nice.

This was the one page that I did that morning. It came out well.

I planned to watch a movie at the Hawaii International Film Fest spring showcase, so I had to leave the class early.

The LCC Sun Life drawing class is located at the LCC Art Room. The class begins at 10:30 and will run until 1:30. There is a 10 dollar class fee. 

"A word as to the education of the heart. We don't believe that this can be imparted through books; it can only be imparted through the loving touch of the teacher."

 ~ Cesar Chavez

Glen's Store

This is a drawing of the interior of Glen's Store, the Armchair Adventurer. The store is more like something out of hoarders then a store, but there is so much wonderful stuff there. This is another in a set of sketches trying to define large areas of sometimes chaotic clutter.

This is a small space more like a wide hallway then a room. I think I could have illustrated this better by including more of the doorway. I could have borrowed a trick they often do in movies--  shoot through a doorway to make the scene seem more intimate.

I had a lot of fun with the Tombow pens in this one. I'm a little unhappy with the perspective, but in general I really like this page.

"Sort out your life by sorting out your junk."

~ Karen Kingston 

Zwick Studios - 04/06/13 - Betsy

So another morning painting session at Zwick Studio.

The painting is progressing nicely. I was a little unsure about how the layout of the page would read; I thought I made the figure too small, but I am finding with more of the details on the form, it looks pretty good. 

I am a little unhappy with the face. I am not quite getting the likeness the way I would like.  Although the portrait is by far the more progressed part of the piece. I think for next week I need to focus more on the body and get color into the background.

 "Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop."

 ~ Lewis Carroll

Robert

This portrait is of Robert to match the portrait I did of Tatiana last week. I managed to get him to sit down for long enough to get the sketch done. I am pretty happy with it.

"When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms." 

~ Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati