The last pose of 3-12-13

Same palette colors as the one before, and a challenging view. It seems disorienting to me without the legs.

Life Drawing #4 of 3-12-13

This one done on gessoed paper which gives it a little tooth. Pastels are NuPastel and Schminke. And I strengthened the colors but still my favorite palette.

3-12-13 Life Drawings

3-12-13 Life Drawing Night

After having to take off a couple weeks, I went into the evening with no expectations. I just decided I would change my palette to my favorite colors and go with the flow. Sometimes I surprise myself and do better than expected when I don't set expectations! Just relaxing and having fun!

This one, and the next two were done on smooth drawing paper and using NuPastels and Schminke dry pastels.

CAM Life Drawing 2-19-2013

I was not happy with the first drawings of the evening, I did not get the drawing right from the get-go and I got way too far along before before I decided I needed to fix them. So I tinkered with some rather strong complementary palette colors, just to see what they would do. I'm working in oil sticks still and I'm still learning what to do with them. But this drawing was the last one of the evening and I focused on getting it right from the start and then building up the form through color, but still not explaining every little detail. This one works for me better than the others from this night.

I'm getting good at backs! I did one almost like this last week!

Long pose #3 2-12-2013

The last one and this one speak to me more than the earlier ones of the night. I like the design, the patches of color, the lines or lack of. This one reminds of me of something too - I must channel things from time to time?

Long pose #2 2-12-2013

 Now I tried to remember to work with a complementary palette, and I did not "pre-draw" the figure, but used the oil stick to lay it out and develop it. It gives a more interesting edge?