One for April

12" x 9" Pastel on Sanded Paper

Here's one of the sketches I made in April at one of the weekly portrait sessions. I might have done it in oil paint, but went with pastel this time. Of course I'll use oils for sketching from life again, but a few weeks ago I went through my art supplies and remembered that I have rather large quantities of pastel sticks, pastel pencils and paper for pastels. So, I'll bring out the pastel supplies from time to time for the live drawing sessions. Maybe I'll even try a large finished piece or two in pastel. We'll see.

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Three Women - More Sketches from March

12" x 9" Charcoal on Grey Paper

Here's some charcoal sketches made at portrait sessions in March. The first one is from a session at Howard Lyons studio. Materials used for these sketches were "extra soft" charcoal pencils, "charcoal white" pencil, kneaded eraser, and of course, ever useful sketchbooks.

10" x 8" Charcoal on Paper

The second drawing is from a session at Casey Childs studio. The last one is from a session at either Casey's studio or Howard's studio, but It's been a while and I can't remember which one now.

12" x 9" Charcoal on Grey Paper

For more about portrait sessions, go to "Labels" on the side bar and click on "portrait", "sketching" or "drawing".