Literary Cafe Friday Sketches

Pastel & Charcoal. Roughly 2hr each.

Friday night sketch

Pastel, 2hours.

Saturday Life Drawing

In the past, it seems all the mediums I tried are pretty easy to handle. Whether it's watercolor, oil pastel, oil painting or digital paintings, I was able to just pick one up and use it without much of a struggle. Recently, I realized not all mediums behave the same (duh!). Conte and dry pastels are two that I struggled to get used to. They don't respond to pressure the same way, they don't blend the same way, and they are hell of a mess.
Oh well, next time I'll try them with a dry brush instead.
Pastel. 3hr

Saturday Life Drawing - boot study

2010 Literary Cafe sketches

Every Friday night, there's a group of artists at Literary cafe doing portrait drawings for whoever volunteer to model that night.
Each drawing session is 3 hours with breaks. The drawings done on black paper are white pastel pencils on black pastel paper. The other two are oil pastels on toned pastel paper.
Most of these drawings were taken using a camera in the bar, thus the blur. The drawings were given away to the models after each sitting.