I am proud to announce my Bronze Medal Award at the Great Lakes Pastel Society 2014 National Exhibit. The piece that won the awards is a portrait of a young woman entitled “Vlk”.
“Vlk” is an alla prima (all at once) 16×20 soft pastel portrait that was done at a short 2.5 hour session and features […]
A Girl Wearing a Bandana won an Honorable Mention award at the Pastel Society of Southeast Texas’ Art of the Pastel 2014 show. A Girl Wearing a Bandana was awarded this distinction by the awards juror Alan Flattmann. Alan Flattmann juried for awards on February 7, and stated, “I am impressed by the diversity of […]
Jordan has posed for us at the open figure sessions many times with good reason; She is a great model with natural poise and grace. Here are various drawings and paintings I have made of her over the years in three different mediums, acrylic paint, oil pastel, and my most often used medium soft pastel. […]
Jesse in Yellow and Grey was done at the Palette and Chisel on a Saturday morning during one of their long pose sessions. That morning she was posing clothed, wearing a grey long sleeved shirt.
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Sadie modeled for us at Platform Studios in Chicago Illinois at several of their weeknight drawing sessions. On some days I draw using an array of soft pastels, and on others I keep it simple with a couple of pieces of black and white conté. Here are examples of each. […]
These are some great pastel drawings that I did at a quick sketch open figure drawing session hosted by the Palette and Chisel in Chicago Illinois. I attended the long pose session that saturday morning, and stuck around for more quick sketch to get the chance to draw the lovely model that afternoon. I was nice and warmed up so I think the results from the shorter poses we very expressive, energetic, and colorful. […]
The Absinthe Show
Friday April 5th 2013 6pm – 10pm
Artbar
located at Two Brothers Roundhouse
205 North Broadway
Aurora, IL 60506
(630) 264-2739
Artbar is holding a one day show “Absinthe Show” at the Two Brothers Roundhouse Brewpub. Enjoy Two Brother’s acclaimed craft beer while taking in the spectacle of the Absinthe art exhibit. I will be showing several pastel paintings and acrylics at the show and will for the first time have prints available as well. […]
Here is a new piece of art called “Portrait of Maggie”, who posed for us at the Palette and Chisel on Dec 2nd. It is executed in soft pastels and shows a young woman facing the viewer done in a colorful, saturated palette. My vantage point was from a short drawing horse in front of […]
Portrait of Kay, 16×20, Soft Pastel on Board, 9/3/2012
Kay, 12×16, Soft Pastel on Board, 9/3/2012
At the 2012 Palette and Chisel Labor Day Marathon we did 2 long poses of a young blonde model name Kay, and she did some difficult poses considering the length of the sitting.
Portrait of Kay, 16x20, Soft Pastel on Board, 9/3/2012
For the first 2 hour sitting I did a portrait in mostly natural hues. There a few areas of saturated pink and some violet in the shadows, but the interesting thing in this portrait is the chunky stroke work in the cheeks, the broad swaths rendering the hair, and the gestural marks in the shoulders and torso that are replicated in the background. The portrait shows off Kay’s lovely face and shoulders. Her blonde locks lightly touch her brow and drape across her collarbone. She’s wearing a content expression as she looks off into the distance.
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Kristi modeled for one of my drawing groups out in the Chicago suburbs, and I did a pastel portrait of her on a 12×16 Ampersand Pastelbord using various brands of Pastels (Rembrandt, Blick, and Daler Rowney). One thing I am very satisfied with is the contrast of hues used in the various tones. The highlights use high-key peach, yellow, and blue hues that help differentiate the different light sources. The midtones are a blend of a tan and violet, and the shades are a mix dark brown, violet, and black. Here and there I used punctuations of magenta and red.
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Rouge, Pastel on Board
Rouge, a pastel portrait painted at the Palette & Chisel in Chicago, Illinois
Rouge, 12×16, Soft Pastel on Board, 12/17/2011
Here is a 4 1/2 hour painting that was done at the Palette & Chisel in Chicago. The lovely model was reclined on a chaise and was intensely gripping the corner of her supporting pillow. […]
