A Studio Drawing - No Model

This is from the last pose of the 21st - decided to develop it in a couple different ways - one in acrylic not finished yet - and there may be more - I'm trying to germinate this seed in my head!

CAM Life Drawing 10-21-14

Working on handmade paper, trying to find my way back home.
 

CAM life drawing 10-14-14

Not a great night for finish work, but an excellent one for experimenting! This one is wet paper, wet gooey graphite, painting with water, using Mr. Clean sponge, scraping stuff off, putting it back on, repairing mistakes, etc.

A sample for my students - from gesture to drawing without model

 Get a good gesture, and you can have something to refer to in future work in your studio.
This done in chunky charcoal on newsprint.

Not an exquisite drawing - feels a little stiff, I like the gesture better - but it took 10 minutes. And since I have a record in gesture, I can do this again, and again, if I want to.
This is wet graphite on my own not toxic watercolor paper.

CAM life draw 10-7-14 #3

Wet paper, NuPastels, some also wet.

CAM life draw 10-7-14 #2

There is white pastel stick, also wet, applied to damp stinky paper.

CAM life draw 10-7-14 funky paper and new tools

I left my head and my paper home so I borrowed some watercolor paper. Drawing was hideous, so I decided to tinker with it by scrubbing it with wet paper towels. Drawing was still hideous, but discovered that colored graphite can turn into ink when you wet it. Only problem: this paper has some funky something in it; when you wet it a peculiar odor wafts up to your nostrils. Smells so bad I can't keep it in the studio - so it sits outside on the porch!
This drawing is 1 of 3 of the same pose, done with wet paper, wet soft graphite sticks and manipulating the graphite with paper towels, mr. clean sponges, etc.

CAM life drawing D3 9-30-14

More funky paper. Not a great drawing, could benefit with WHAT???

 Cropping!

WHERE??

So much fun!

CAM life drawing D2 9-30-14

Experimenting with funky paper. It has bits of shell embedded, handmade, Japanese - probably not archival - who cares? So there is a natural texture and sheen which sort of gives you a foot up!

9-30-14 CAM life drawing D1 cropped

A lesson in cropping - this is just one version - I have several. But for my class - a project can be changed just by the way you present it!