My garden house patio intakes a constant southern light exposure.
The patio is wide enough to see how east and west light brighten with warm yellows the field trees and bushes. Yesterday’s overcast weather was marvelously moodily cool.
My model is George. What I like about sketching from him is the variety of crags, surface planes, rounded areas and wild hair. His image lends itself to linear art interpretation. But he’s also full of color changes such as when his upper cheek of flesh tone orange drops into a precipice of green. That makes a perfect pastel model.
He’s a great model because he doesn’t mind my continual sketching in front of him. But he’s a lousy model if I wanted do to more serious work. He’s too antsy and moves too much. So I take the opportunity to practice my quick sketches on him.
Medium is Nupastel…just soft enough to gauge the paper with color pigment and hard enough to keep on drawing over it.
I bribe this model for sitting still: strong sweet coffee and NY style cheesecake.