Category Archives: Figurative Work

Selling Prints at Uptown Body and Fender Tonight

Uptown Body and Fender has been very generous in allowing us to show and sell our work out their space, as well as hiring 3 of our artists to do a mural in their parking lot. They are a true patron of the arts here in Oakland.

It’s been great having so many people come in every month to Uptown and see our work. One thing that is difficult about being an artist is getting regular feedback from the public, and there is no shortage of public or feedback at the Art Murmur.

I’ll have a bunch of small prints, mostly under $100 up tonight, including these cheeky semi-nude screen prints. They are all numbered 1/1, which means they are all different. I used different inks and paper, and have a few on wood panel. Stop by and pick one up for $40 for paper, 50 for wood.

And as long as you are down in Oakland, check out Marcos LaFarga at Sticks and Stones Gallery at 815 Broadway. I haven’t seen the show yet, but I’ll bet it’s freakin awesome.

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A Few 1 and 2 Minute Drawings

I went to the Bay Area Models’ Guild Marathon this morning. They always put on a great event, and I love that it goes for 6 hours. Ever since I took a life drawing class at De Anza College that was 5 hours a day with one ten minute break, four days a week for three weeks, I’ve felt that the standard 3 hour sessions most places do is just too short.

I normally draw the 5 and 10 minute poses, sometimes the 20′s, but today I did almost all 1 and 2 minute poses. I was definitely a bit rusty from not drawing from a model for a few months. Here are a few of my favorites, all pen on paper. I have some charcoal sketches too I’ll post after I go through them. 6 hours of one and two minute poses is a healthy stack.

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Life Drawing

Here is a before and after shot of a life drawing done from a model. I hardly ever finish a whole drawing with the model sitting in front of me. I like to have some really dark areas, and those take up a lot of time that could be better spent on other areas of the drawing. I think it’s good practice to figure out tones intellectually from time time to time, instead of only observationally.

Nude life drawing unfinished drawing

Unfinished drawing done from a model

Life drawing touched up later

Life drawing touched up later

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Top 10 Life Drawing Tips

I’ve moved some content from my other site, brokenarted.com to this one. A few articles are on this site now, including ‘Top 10 Figure Drawing Tips‘ and ‘Using milk as a Drawing Fixative.’ The links are under the ‘Art Tutorials’ section on the sidebar.

Top 10 Life Drawing Tips

Top 10 Life Drawing Tips

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Figure Drawing Studio

I’m super excited to be setting up a brand new figure drawing space at the brand new Faultline Art Space. We have 34 pieces of beautiful salvaged mahogany to build tables, and about 260 square feet of northern facing windows to compliment the space with. I have a privacy wall to build, a heater to install, and a few things to find on Craigslist, and then we are good to go.

figure drawing studio Oakland

New figure drawing studio in Oakland, CA

The most fun figure drawing class I took was at art school in an old marble building with diffused natural light from skylights. The class was from 4-10pm and we would draw with no artificial lights until dark. For me, there is nothing better than natural light, and watching the light slowly shift while you are drawing is both a pleasure and a challenge. Often drawing sessions will be in a room with beautiful light, and then they close the curtains for privacy and set up unnatural looking spotlights, which makes for unnatural looking drawings. Stay tuned for upcoming session dates.

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