Parmigianino study

This is my version of Parmigianino's (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) Study of a Head. 

Here's a link to the original: http://www.wikigallery.org/wiki/pain...tudy-of-a-Head

Small, about 5x7 sanguine on pastel paper. What can I say, I like doing the old master studies. If that's how they learned, who am I to argue? 

Virtual Figure Drawing Class

This is from last weekend, vine charcoal on newsprint.

Friday AM commute

This morning: a long-time Metro employee who is probably reading a story about slashing public employee pensions, and a young girl with a much more care-free disposition.

On the way home from figure drawing class

At first there was nobody on the train to draw, so I just doodled, then a guy came in and conked out for a few stations.

Rafael "Fighting Men" Study

Here's the Rafael study for the figure drawing class.  The idea is to try to  understand the forms in relation to one another.  The marks and sketching around the margins are my instructor's.  Tonight we had a model, so it was my first life drawing session where the model was not an unwitting metro passenger or myself.  My drawings were...ok....sorta....for a first effort.  Then, on the way home a couple of sketches on the train which I will post tomorrow.

Friday morning, Friday night

Hey, here's something new for you - sketches of people on the Metro!

Metro Ride on the way home from class

I really like drawing people on the Metro.  I had to take the Metro from Rockville to Silver Spring, which is almost an hour long ride.  The time just flew and I had to keep reminding myself to look out the window so I knew which station I was at.  I think one day I will just hop on the train and draw people all day.  Anyway, here are two from last night.