Sunday best

Tired of Sleeping

A painted sketch from my art college days, done from life in about half an hour.

just friends

3 times around

Three rapid sketches of the model, done with a Copic brush pen.

the most beautiful boy

Egyptian and her girlfriend

Drawn on the iPad using the Procreate app.

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Aaron

...before a fall

Drawn from life at a Keyhole Session in Toronto, Ontario, with various Copic markers.

jessica

my man Jesse

Off the Coast

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Lily

Drawn from life in about twenty minutes.

Transitory things

A snapshot of a drawing still in progress, to be titled Alles Vergāngliche ist nur ein Gleichnis (Everything impermanent is but a parable). It's a line from Goethe's Faust, but it appears in a number of places, not least the tombstone of Max Weber, the great theorist of early capitalism.

The drawing depicts a confrontation between two characters, perhaps of a spiritual or metaphysical nature, that is nonetheless taking place in a setting redolent of advanced materialism.

out of the Aldo

 

Romney and I were in Italy, in the Museo di Arte Contemporanea.

We were marvelling at the indigenous talent when we saw this half naked young woman engaged in study of an Aldo Salvadori painting.  She looked over at us and we were both struck as if she had walked out of the very picture.

This was some time ago.  I have drawn her from memory.

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Amy at the Arts Project

the orator

Drawn from life at a Keyhole Session in Toronto, Ontario, with various markers and crayons.

time of your time

Drawn from life in five minutes with a china marker.

Grisette, the principled type.

A quick iPad portrait by Tarragon.

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the boa

Exported artwork from Procreate

Drawn in the Locomotive Espresso cafe in London, Ontario.

the heart is a lonely haunter

Drawn from life in ten minutes.