It’s been a long time since I’ve had the opportunity to do any sort of live sitting portraiture. Most folks haven’t the patience or the time to sit for however long [in multiple sittings] it can take to complete a fine art portrait, so I usually have to resort to a couple of quick live sketches and scores of photographs. This one was done during a life drawing session last week at Hipbone Studio:
"Jennifer"
The time for this piece was about 45 minutes. Because I don’t want to leave my groove to sharpen a point or swap out pencils, my preferred tool for life drawings is the *woodless pencil. I’ve tried pastels and charcoal, but the dust makes me sneeze like crazy.
And while my collectors love knowing that I put blood, sweat, and tears into my art, they draw the line at mucous.
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*the woodless pencils I use were made by Grumbacher, but I don’t believe they make them any longer — good thing I like to stock up when I find art goodies that I really like,….
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