25 Sunday Jun 2017
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I had an old painting of Atlas Holding Up The Heavens sitting around in my garage. I had reworked it in my sketchbook and planned to make the changes in my painting. It took awhile but I eventually did it and I’m glad I did.
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11 Sunday Jun 2017
Posted in Art, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Life Drawing Workshop
Today we had the tattooed model. It seemed like she had new tattoos added since the last time I saw her.
Although I got got a couple of poses with her back to me there were a couple of poses where I was able to draw her face. It was hard to capture the general look and feel of her but I think that’s how it is with certain models.
Below are two 20-minute charcoal drawing in black and white on toned paper.
More charcoal drawings at www.cletocriste.com/life-drawings/
11 Sunday Jun 2017
Posted in Art, Figure Drawing, Life Drawing Workshop
Was looking at some sumi ink sketches from three life drawing workshops and decided to post some of them. These are two-minute warm up poses that we draw at the start of the workshop.
28 Sunday May 2017
Posted in Art, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Life Drawing Workshop, Portraits
I like drawing this particular model. I think someone said he studies classical poses and uses them when he models for a life drawing class. For some reason his looks reminds me of Van Gogh. A woman next to me said he reminds her of paintings of satyrs. But we both agree that his mustache is very interesting.
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07 Sunday May 2017
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aux deux crayons, charcoal drawings, charcoal figure drawing, life drawing workshop, life drawings, portrait drawing
Today’s model is one of my favorites to draw. He’s not muscular but he’s large boned with angular, well defined surface areas. You don’t have that smooth roundness that you see in a lot of female models so he has more interesting surface areas to work with.
Below are two, twenty minute drawings in the aux deux crayons (two chalks) style.
To see more of my artwork, go to www.cletocriste.com.
23 Sunday Apr 2017
Posted in Art, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Life Drawing Workshop, Sketching
I haven’t posted my ink sketches for awhile. These are some sketches from the last two months.
23 Sunday Apr 2017
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charcoal drawing, charcoal figure drawing, drawing, life drawing workshop, life drawings, portrait, portraits
Today’s drawings at the Sunday life drawing workshop. For some reason I always seem to have a little difficulty getting a good likeness of this model. Oh well, I just need more practice, I guess.
20 minute poses.
19 Sunday Mar 2017
Posted in Art, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Life Drawing Workshop, Portraits
Not a cloud in the sky today. After a few weeks of rainy weather and vog we get the perfect sunny weather this weekend. It was also a nice day to do some life drawing from a live model.
Below is a 10 minute charcoal drawing.
Below are two 20 minute aux deux crayons drawings.
To see more of my life drawings and other artworks go to www.cletocriste.com.
19 Sunday Feb 2017
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charcoal drawing, charcoal figure drawing, charcoal pencils, figure drawing session, figure drawing workshop, life drawing, nude figures, pencil charcoal drawings, toned paper drawing
In these types of drawing, whether it’s a three color chalk drawing, or aux deux crayons (two colors), I want to try to make use of the paper color more.
12 Sunday Feb 2017
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Football season is over and now maybe I can start going regularly to the Sunday life drawing workshop.
Today’s model was just fine. She was tall, lithe, athletic looking. The attendance was great, too, maybe about 35. The model even came by and took pictures of my drawings during one of the breaks.
Everything was just great, except that drive home when there was almost a massive pile up when everyone suddenly slowed down, some coming to a screeching halt, because some road crew was removing debris by the side of the road and closed off one lane.
So anyway, I was pretty happy with today’s results.
To see more of my artwork go to www.cletocriste.com
