Basset Hound Studies
I needed to do some studies of Basset Hounds for a project. Where else to go but the web. Mind you I would have prefered a read model but with time constraints the web has been a life saver.
Landmarks
I marked up a study of mine to show my students landmarks to look for. I sort of liked the look with all the marks. Good stuff to know.
Mooos and Mooses
Been busy drawing since the last post. The Royal Winter Fair is always a treat, especially if you wait until the evening when the kids are gone, and it seems to settle into more of a farm feeling that showy exhibition feeling of hype. When things got quiet I found a nice bale of hay [...]
some drawings
studies from yesterday in the studio. Not the greatest day, far too many scribbles and not enough hitting it right away. When I was drawing the hand on the thigh my thoughts went to a Bernini sculpture I saw at Villa Borghese in Rome, one in which Bernini managed to capture the pressure of the [...]
Drawing workout
This week I had Ed Cz into the studio for some drawing that was a bit overdue. Over the next 5 hours Ed offered excellent poses and for me, over 150 studies and drawings later, a terrific feeling of exhilaration that one gets after a great work out.For the first 3 hrs we had rapid [...]
fun with skeletons
that sort of sounds strange, but I did have fun yesterday when with an hour to kill in the studio, I started drawing a skeleton for practice and ended up with this group of laughing bones. Because of the angle of the teeth in the skull, it always seems if skeletons are smiling. Odd to [...]
New Drawing Courses in Guelph – Anatomy for Artists & Figure Drawing
Well, here it is, the start of the Zimmermann School of Drawing. Not an official school of course, but based on my years drawing and teaching life drawing to animation students first at Sheridan in Oakville Ontario from 1986 to 2001 and most recently at Seneca@York, starting mid September I will be giving two figure [...]
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Eden Mills again. Couldn't help sketch the dog.When I arrived the model was standing in the cast light of the setting sun. The shadow from the window played across her body so I toned my paper with charcoal and using my gum eraser painted in the light and then cut the lines of her body. [...]
Eden Mills
Out drawing the other night in Eden Mills again. Our model Sarah seemed so serene in her poses, seemingly angelic, that I couldn't help but add wings, thinking of all those cherubs from old paintings that must have gotten older at some time or other. Very enjoyable evening with pen and nib, and my trusty [...]
NYC West Village Musician
Spent a weekend in NYC restoring my soul in the museums, galleries and streets of this incredible city. This guy was happily playing his cello sitting at the end of a street closed off for a neighbourhood yard sale. I only had the back of an envelope and a stub of a pencil but his [...]