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Last night’s Long Term Pose at The Riv­oli was quite a blast. Our model Jack turned up with her stu­dio mates who had never mod­eled before and asked if Stan, Bradley and I would  mind if they gave it a shot. We were thrilled with their work and under Jack’s coach­ing, they did a mar­velous job. Thanks to Jack, Rachel and Kate for the inspi­ra­tion. Here are two pas­tels from the ses­sion, Nupas­tel on Stone­henge papers.

My piece,  “Cricket”, pas­tel on paper was one of three first place win­ners at Domai.com! I’d like to thank Eolake Sto­b­ble­house at Domai for choos­ing my work,  and Cricket the model for posing!

Check out the other win­ners! http://www.domai.com/pics/art-contest-2/index.html

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Speakeasy is an open mic improv hosted by Chris­t­ian Col­lier at the Mud­pie in Chat­tanooga. Chris­t­ian asked me to be the artist guest last evening so I took my Nupas­tels and tore up some Stone­henge paper and sketched four of the per­form­ers. I sold two and have these left of Brandi and Jodi. Charles Niznik Clen­denin sup­plied me with cof­fee and com­pany and Thomp­son Gale­tovic made us some fan­tas­tic Nutella Crepes. Yum!

We had our first long yerm pose at the Riv­oli last evening, Stan the Man, the model and I did a 30 min and set­tled into this pose for the remain­der of the three hours.
We started with a sit­ting pose, then Stan sug­gested that we put the model on a fold­ing card table. I had my doubts that the thing would hold but she made it though with no prob­lem at all. I’ve never been a fan of reclin­ing poses and this one was no excep­tion. I drew it twice, wiped it out, drew it again and finally got it on the third round. I had lit­tle time left to work on the mod­el­ing so I con­cen­trated on the back­ground and the props instead. It has a nice French poster kind of feel and I’m happy with the results. Not bad for the first long pose.

Pris­ma­color Nupas­tel on Stone­henge paper

This is the final ver­sion of an ear­lier Study of Heather started on a snowy day when the stu­dio was freez­ing. I used a ref­er­ence photo to com­plete Heather’s face and am very happy with the result. Thanks very much to the model for the sit­ting. If you’d like to model, con­tact me via my handy con­tact form.

Pris­ma­color Nupas­tel on Stone­henge paper

Three 30 minute stud­ies from yesterday’s Open Fig­ure Draw­ing Ses­sion at the Riv­oli Mill. Var­i­ous sizes, Nupas­tel on Stone­henge paper.

Con­grat­u­la­tions to Emmanuel, this month’s free 5″ x 7″ print win­ner! Join my mail­ing list to the right to auto­mat­i­cally be enter for this month’s drawing.

Heather answered my post on CL for a model. It was snow­ing that day, odd for Chat­tanooga this time of year. Flakes as big as frogs were falling but not stick­ing to the roads. I had two heaters on Heather in her leather chair but the still weren’t enough. Work­ing with some­one who’s get­ting goose flesh makes me rush the draw­ing so I shot a ref­er­ence for her face and will post the fin­ished pas­tel when I’m done. Heather was a good sport and a real trooper deal­ing with the chill.

Pris­ma­color NuPas­tel on Stone­henge Paper

A pas­tel study of April’s torso, done in Nupas­tel on Stone­henge paper.
Col­lec­tion of Rachel Dickson.