Tag Archive: Figure Sketches

Pas­tel Sale

Marci, Pastel on Paper, 22" x 30"

I am let­ting go of some old favorites in a Spe­cial Sale. The larger size, 22″ x 30″ are $40.00. The smaller size, 15″ x 22″ are $25.00. All are on Rives BFK or Stone­henge papers, wrapped in acid free plas­tic sleeves. Con­tact me to purchase.

Por­trait of Samantha

Portrait of Sister Thyme in Pastel

This is my first pas­tel por­trait of Saman­tha and her first long term pose at Hip­bone Stu­dio in Port­land, Ore­gon. I fin­ished this draw­ing in two ses­sions, it’s done in Nupas­tels on unfa­mil­iar paper that a stu­dent traded me for my tra­di­tional Stonehenge.

Model Marathon Man

Line Drawing of Glass Olive

There was another Model Marathon at Hip­bone Stu­dio this past Sun­day, num­ber 52. I stopped by Muse Art+Design and picked up a new sketch­book, this time with a soft cover. There were 9 mod­els for 9 hours, I drew eight of them. My favorites were the first and last mod­els with the sec­ond one run­ning a close sec­ond. I wish Olive had gotten…

All You Sisters

Line Drawing of Sister Thyme

It’s been my plea­sure to work with a model named Saman­tha Beasley (Sis­ter Thyme) as both an inspi­ra­tion for my abstract work as well as my fig­ure draw­ings. I made these from Samantha’s début at Hip­bone Stu­dio. I’m col­lab­o­rat­ing with her on a book called Sis­ter Thyme, my draw­ings of her cou­pled with her mus­ings on art and…

Back to Ink

Line Drawing by Daniel Liam Gill

I’m start­ing a cou­ple of books with Ariel and Sis­ter Thyme and I’ve switched back to ink to make them. These are draw­ings made at Hip­bone over the last sev­eral weeks fea­tur­ing Zach, Casey, Johnny and leah. Ink on paper from my sketchbooks.

Ret­ro­spec­tive

Pastel of Ann

I’ve had too much cof­fee today and I’ve been think­ing about fig­ure draw­ing, find­ing my voice as a painter and what’s lead me to the series I’m doing now. I started work­ing with the fig­ure seri­ously about a year after I’d moved to Port­land, back in 2002. I was teach­ing Illus­tra­tion at PNCA and I’d gone out for a walk…

Teach­ing Aids

Pastel Drawing of Ariel 3rd Layer

I’m teach­ing a class in Pas­tels at Hip­bone Stu­dio this month. Ariel will be my model, she dropped by the stu­dio yes­ter­day to help me make a few teach­ing aids. Here’s a sam­ple of what you’ll learn in the class. Thanks Ariel for your help. [fb_​like]

Hid­den Treasures

Pastel Drawing of Yellow Samantha

I found these in my newsprint pad, a cou­ple of nice draw­ings that didn’t make it with there ear­lier posts. I like this one of Trisha in the hat. The sec­ond is the last draw­ing of Saman­tha from Deer Island. I drew most of it in the dark, that’s why it looks like a banana. [fb_​like]

Krissy and Julie

Pastel Drawing of Julie in Gold

These are pas­tel stud­ies from last Wednes­day. Krissy was the after­noon model and Julie, the evening. I got lost in Julie’s hair on her last pose, wish­ing I’d brought some oils and had a cou­ple of hours to study all of that gold,

Three Pas­tel Study

Study of Ariel - The final drawing

I’ve refreshed my tech­nique with pas­tels in prepa­ra­tion for my upcom­ing work­shop. Last night was the last 3 hour ses­sion in the long-​term series for Feb­ru­ary at Hip­bone Stu­dio. Last week I did a straight por­trait of Ariel from the shadow side of the pose. I com­posed the piece with a raw sienna pas­tel straight on to the page. I kept the palette sim­ple, 5 – 6