Study in Cream

I’ve worked with a lot of mod­els over the years, all shapes and sizes, many pro­fes­sional and many more ama­teur. I heard quite a few sto­ries in that time, anec­dotes about other artists, plenty of sto­ries about boyfriends and lovers and lots of things that I can’t repeat to the gen­eral pub­lic. I’ll have to write a book someday.

There’s a story behind this draw­ing as well. I was work­ing with a model the day before this young lady sat for me. She was telling me about her artist friend who loved to work with heavy peo­ple. “She imag­ines them as ice cream cones” That visual stuck in my head and I as thought about it, I indeed imag­ined ice cream. Zestos is a place in Atlanta that still does the soft serves, magic in it’s cush­iony lay­ers. I drew this piece in 45 min­utes, straight from the time the model set down to the fin­ished piece. I guess there’s really some­thing to the power of suggestion.

Nude pas­tel draw­ing done with Schminke pas­tels on Rives BFK paper.