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.
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…
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]
It was supposed to snow yesterday here in Portland, Oregon. People tend to panic when that happens and Hipbone had a light crowd for both sessions. I was in a cartoony mood and had a great time drawing Elona in her hat, her boots and on a bicycle, sans the bicycle. Paula was the second model. She brought HER hat, her banjo…
I’m teaching a pastel seminar in March at Hipbone Studio so I’ve dropped the pen and sketchbook for the time being and picked up the pastel. I shot these with my iPhone on location, hence the color and the weird shadows. The model today was Sivonna, a woman my friend James told me about. He sketched her lips…
Here’s a pastel of Ariel at the Hipbone Studio February Long Term Pose. I came into this session on the second sitting so most of the front and three-quarter places were taken. I decided to give Ariel’s profile a go. She has an amazing nose and a forehead that’s covered in bangs most of the time. I’m a big fan of…
The last drawings of Shida the Cheetah at Townsend Atelier.
Pastels from August 2010 at Townsend Atelier by Daniel Liam Gill
The Graces and The Furies, Various Sizes, Pastel on Paper by Daniel Liam Gill
Cricket, Pastel on Paper, Winner of the Domai Art Contest 2!
