Unison soft pastel and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (cream tone, 8″ x 10″), June 2008.
We’ve had thunderstorms on and off throughout the day, making natural light somewhat scarce for taking photos. This picture of my latest marsh drawing isn’t the best but hopefully it gives a sense of the things I’m wrestling with these days. [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Summer Marsh Landscape 2
Posted in Works on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More Cloud Studies
Posted in Works on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Unison soft pastel on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (cream tone, 13-1/2″ x 17-1/2″), June 2008.
A continuation of the cloud studies I started last week. This is a particularly useful exercise since it provides an opportunity to do some work from direct observation in limited amounts of time – such as when I get home from work [...]
Cloud Studies
Posted in Works on June 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Unison soft pastel on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (cream tone, 13-1/2″ x 17-1/2″), June 2008.
With thunderstorms threatening and occasional rainfall today, I decided against drawing outdoors. I wanted to practice with direct observation from nature, though, and decided to do some studies of clouds as seen from an open window in our apartment. This project was [...]
Summer Marsh Landscape
Posted in Works on June 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (cream tone, 8″ x 10″), June 2008.
I’ve been struggling all week with a marsh landscape composition, which is based on photos I took during our recent trip to British Columbia, Canada. The pastel I’m posting today is the fourth I’ve attempted of the subject – [...]
Upstate New York
Posted in Works on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Arches Ingres paper (white tone, 8″ x 10″), June 2008.
Drawing indoors today because of the heat outside, I worked on this landscape. The reference photos were taken just before a storm from the deck of my parents’ house upstate, probably in late autumn. You see these kinds of transitions from open [...]
Plein Air in the Park
Posted in Works on June 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Velata paper (light cream tone, 5″ x 7″), June 2008.
I managed several hours of drawing outside in the park near our apartment today despite temperature in excess of ninety degrees here in New York. My focus was on tree studies – not on detailed realistic renderings of trees but instead [...]
Alpine Village
Posted in Works on June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Vergata paper (cream tone, 8″ x 10″), June 2008.
I worked on this drawing from photo references at night during the past week. It’s mostly done in soft pastel over a light sketch in vine charcoal on roughly textured handmade paper. You can see lots of places where [...]
Spider Plant
Posted in Works on June 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Unison soft pastel, Conté crayon and pastel pencil on Cartiera Magnani Vergata paper (cream tone, 8″ x 10″), May 2008.
After spending time recently working on the smooth pages of a Moleskine sketchbook, the rough texture of this handmade molded paper was a pleasure to use. I’ve been wanting to draw flowering spider plants for some time now and [...]
