Good Friday

Today is Good Friday and with basically nowhere to go and nothing to watch on tv and seeing that my last post was almost a week ago I'll take a few minutes to make up for the delay and post a few new drawings from my live drawing class. Here goes...
This is one of my first ever figure drawings and I thought it didn't come out too bad. I did it during a summer class at the Malta School of Art and it is done in soft pastels on gray pastel paper. The teacher there insisted that we should always draw the background - you'd have thought that it was more important than the figure itself!







This is another one done during the summer class. I did this one in a freer style than the one above

















Same class, different model. Actually this charming lady was the wife of one of the teachers there. It's nice to do a clothed figure once in a while :-).

















This is a much more recent drawing done a few weeks ago in sanguine. The foreshortening is quite interesting, but I did struggle for a while with the head, causing it to be quite dirty due to the fact that the sanguine did not erase as easily as normal graphite. This was a half hour short pose.

And this is the last one for today. This was done in the same week as the previous drawing using sanguine and sepia as well as charcoal. In contrast to the previous one however, this was not a half hour pose. Instead I had a full two hours for this. The reason is that for this particular session there was a new attendee who did not use graphite, charcoal or paint at all - he actually sculpted the figure in clay. This is pretty impressive in my opinion even more so because he actually managed to obtain a pretty good likeness in the two hours that were available.
Anyway, the longer time allowed me to give more importance o the modeling of the forms which I really had fun doing. Incidentally there's a small mistake in this drawing, but thankfully it's not very visible. Take a look at her hand - it has six fingers!