Asheville 2012 Bele Chere Festival

Here are some live caricatures I drew at the Bele Chere festival in Asheville,NC. You can see the images larger by clicking on them.

Portrait Drawing Workshop

Last week I took a Portrait Drawing class taught by Angela Cunningham from The Grand Central Academy of Art. The workshop was held at The Fine Arts League of the Carolinas in Asheville, NC. I learned to slow down drawing from 10am to 5pm each day.

Here is Angela's blog.

Dusty Sketchbook

These are sketches from a 10.5" by 13.5" bound sketchbook of mine. I bought the sketchbook 8 years ago and was less than a third filled. The baseball sketch was done 7 years ago. So I decided to start drawing in it again. The figure drawings are from this past week.

Exaggerated Figure

These four charcoal sketches are of the same model. I exaggerated the masses and altered the face and skull. I also enlarged and decreased the hands and feet. While drawing them I was thinking about Pablo Picasso and similar artists. Here are a few links to other artist's exaggerated figures I like.

Jeremy Townsend

Seo Kim

Dan Hay

Figure Drawing Sessions

Recently done at the open drawing session at the Fine Arts League of Asheville.

www.fine artsleague.org

Color with Water

Been ages since I tryed some watercolor.
These are 20 minute figure sketches.

Figure Sketches

Most Tuesdays evenings I draw live models. Good practice.

Tuesday

Figure drawing on Tuesday night.