Five

We finally had a male model at life drawing this week! He had a beard and bald head with long strands of hair. He struck awesome Renaissance style poses. This is a 10 minute sketch. I love the way it turned out and shows how less is more.

Six

I painted this in a 2.5 hour life drawing session. My focus was on capturing the light and painting with paint which means using mass and brush strokes rather than drawing with paint. It's a huge shift in both seeing and doing. Less is More! It's so easy to get caught up in drawing unnecessary details which is the death of a painting. Every time I lost my way and defaulted to rendering I took it as a cue calling "Come back to the Light!"