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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.

Amy Pow­ell asked me to work with here troupe cre­at­ing a poster for the show “Many”, a Grounded High pro­duc­tion tak­ing place in April 2010. I shot the troupe in cos­tume over an evening, chose the best pose of each mem­ber and cre­ated this pas­tel as the basis for the poster.

Nupas­tel on Stone­henge paper.

I’m work­ing with a model here in Chat­tanooga. This pas­tel is from our first ses­sion. She has a nat­ural grace and knows how to pose. I used a lim­ited palette for this peice, roughly six colors.

Nupas­tel on Stone­henge paper.

Jen of Grounded High, Pas­tel on Stone­henge Paper, 15″ x 22″

I share a stu­dio in the Riv­oli Mill with many tal­ented artists and per­form­ers, the most unusual of which is the aer­ial troupe, Grounded High. I asked Amy and Jen if they would allow me to shoot a few ref­er­ence shots for pas­tels. They agreed and this is the first of the series. This is Jen warm­ing up. It’s done with Pris­ma­color NuPas­tel on Stone­henge paper. I’ll be mak­ing it avail­able as a print in the near future. Con­tact me if you’re interested.

Red Cricket Col­lec­tion of Quin Swetman

Con­grat­u­la­tions to William, this month’s win­ner of a free 5″ x 7″ print just for sign­ing up to our mail­ing list! Join now to be in the run­ning for February’s free print.

Back Study by Daniel Liam Gill

Open Fig­ure Draw­ing Ses­sion at the Riv­oli Art Mill

Join the artists at the Riv­oli Art Mill on Sun­day after­noons from 2pm-5pm for an Open, Unin­structed Fig­ure Draw­ing Session.

Live model will be pos­ing in 15 one minute ges­tures, 3 five minute sketches and 1 fif­teen minute pose. 3 thirty minute poses will fol­low with breaks in between for the model.

Cost: $10.00 per per­son.
Sun­day After­noons: 2pm-5pm Ongo­ing
The Riv­oli Art Mill 2301 East 28th St.
Chattanooga,Tennessee 37407
Please pro­vide your own mate­ri­als and easel. The space can hold 10–12 peo­ple com­fort­ably. Please arrive 15–20 min­utes early to reserve your spot.

For ques­tions
con­tact 
Daniel Liam Gill
423 653‑6565

I have always loved work­ing on Newsprint, it one of my favorite papers. It’s a shame it’s so frag­ile, I wish I could find the same tone and tooth in an acid free paper. This is a sketch of a model named Ann that I did in a ses­sion at the Pacific North­west Col­lege of Art. I taught illus­tra­tion there for a few years. This is a 30 minute study done with Nupas­tels for Pris­ma­color.