Saturday Night Untitled Sketch

I did a bit of quick updating to this drawing after putting it down for a couple of days.  I started it late Saturday night.  I used vine charcoal, a General's 4B charcoal pencil, and a Conte white drawing pencil.  Strathmore just came out with a terrific pad of acid free 80lb toned gray paper.

Figure Drawing at Hood College

Tomorrow Dorothy and I are going to Hood College in Frederick Maryland to draw.  I really am fortunate to have a place to draw so close to home, and right on the way home from work.  That fact that my daughter can come along is just icing on the cake.  I think Dorothy started drawing before she started walking.  Here is her website: http://www.dorothygroesbeck.com.

Lola, Part 5

"Lola" oil on linen, 14 x 16.

I think I am just about done with this painting.

A James Taylor song has been stuck in my head for a week, here is the first verse:

We were ring-around-the-rosy children
They were circles around the sun
Never give up, never slow down
Never grow old, never ever die young...

Lola, Part 4

I am still working on "Lola."  I am using a palette consisting of zinc white, indian red, burnt umber, raw sienna, ultramarine blue, and just a touch of burnt sienna.

Lola, Part 3

"Lola" oil on linen. 16" x 14."

Lola Part 2

I am painting and listening to James Taylor sing, "We were ring-around-the-rosy children , They were circles around the sun , Never give up, never slow down Never grow old, never ever die young."

This is Lola, a work in progress on linen.  She is not quite finished.  I have had a couple weeks of inactivity and I am so happy to that the smell of oil medium on my hands again.

Lola

"Lola", 16 x 14. Oil on linen, a work in progress.