barque copies, color studies, and life drawing...

This week i wanted to work on drawing casts. We were going to make our own casts but we don't have a double boiler to melt our cast goo yet so I decided to work on some Barque copies. Jameson bought the Charles Barque Drawing Course - a great book full of cast drawings and mastercopies by Charles
Barque. Its a perfect book for practice on drawing casts. I wish my finished master copy didn't look stoned, but practice makes perfect so I have to just keep at it.

Also working on some  color studies. It helps me get a better handle on how the different colors interact with each other and trying to find what neutrals look good from the different color wheel opposites. Also gives you a little more sensitivity to the graduation of color tones.

And of course life drawing. I'm trying to make it to lifedrawing sessions two or three times a week. It starting to become a little more fun and a little less like having my fingernails pulled out with pliers. The anatomy studies are helping the proportions come a little more naturally.
                              posted by crystal