Early Morning in Ikea Cafe

Deserted Ikea, right after the opening, gave me kind of surrealistic feeling. Empty rooms, which are always so alive and crowded, were calm and lonely. Cafe, silent and loaded with food. Little version of planet Earth after the end of times.

Ordinary disastrous every day events in my country and overall rise of temperature in the world completely washed away my wish to express myself in blogging. But suddenly the spammers helped. The amount of spam became unbearable, which usually shows that blog is forgotten by its owner and needs revival. So here I am, drawing, painting, blogging. I hope you are all right out there, my friends.

Lilac and Yellow Girl

That was fun task from my "ideas basket": I had to use two, light and dark, pastel sticks, 10 various papers and to draw human figure (from reference), composing into the paper.
Experience of losing control and going with the flow is priceless.

Tonal Values Study

My Lamy Safari pen and burnt sienna ink in the tonal value study. The task is to use 3 values: dark, midtone and light.

Winter Clothes

 I have drawn my reliable friends before sending them into depth of the wardrobe for nearest half or more year: duck down coat, velvet trousers, fur boots and little but warm H&M wool beanie.

Hands Study in Charcoal

I back to painting and blogging and so happy about it.

3x 30 Minutes Portraits.

 I am still in the middle of 6 weeks Drawing Course (Amazon link here).  Day 9 offers to draw portraits in pencil, ink and charcoal, each session no longer than 30 minutes.

You think I am narcissistic artist, drawing myself three times in a row? No, I am not - where else can one find more obedient and disciplined model for artful experiments, than in the mirror?
I like the one in the middle - big eyes, no wrinkles, nice hairdo. But my mom says, that the first one is the closest resembling of her dearest daughter.

Dashboard

14x20cm

Waiting in the car in the dark is not good for sketching but very good for time killing.

Sunflower

It is my second attempt to catch beauty and freedom of nature's creature.

Figure Sketches

Another attempt to draw human figure in 1, 3, 5 and 15 minutes.
I get so tired and washed out at the end of the 2,5 hours session. Such a  difficult subject human body is. And so beautiful.

Figures of Posemaniacs.com

Posemaniacs.com is always there to help us with figure drawing.