Newer Cityscapes 2011-2015

All oil on canvas in sizes ranging from 36″ to 12″ in vertical dimensions. Paintings are roughly proportional as pictured.

Above the Painting Studios
Above the Painting Studios

Studio Heights View
Studio Heights View

Emarcadero Walk
Embarcadero Walk

F Market
The F Market

Spear Underpass
Spear Overpass

 

17th Street Afternoon
17th Street Afternoon

Crossing South van Ness
Crossing South van Ness

 

Early Morning Skyline
Early Morning Bay View

Morning Regatta
Morning Regatta

 

 

Low Tide - Shoreline Highway
Low Tide – Shoreline Highway

 

Bay View from Telegraph Hill
Bay View from Telegraph Hill

 

Boarding Platform
Boarding Platform

Painting Cityscapes 1999-2011

The city as a subject and inspiration for creative art.

Paintings sizes are roughly proportional as seen on this page

Excelsior view from Balboa Park
Balboa Park Muni Yard

Cold Alley 2011
Cold Alley 2011

Le Colonial Restaurant
Le Colonial Restaurant

Bernal Hill Row Houses #1
Bernal Hill Row Houses #1

Bernal Hill Row Houses
Bernal Hill Row Houses

Orange Morning
Orange Morning

Alley off O'Farrel Street
Alley off O’Farrel Street

South View from Bernal Hill
South View from Bernal Hill

Bush-Taylor Corner
Bush-Taylor Corner

Bush-Leavenworth Corner
Bush-Leavenworth Corner

Narrow Downtown
Narrow Downtown

Downtown Sky
Downtown Sky

Downtown Shadows
Downtown Shadows

Downtown Macy's
Downtown Macy’s


Life Drawing – Figurative Art

Twisted figure pastel

Sampling of my Figurative drawings; 1999-2011.

Drawing the figure is one of the quickest ways to gain drawing proficiency, hand-eye coordination and develop a personal manner or style with a chosen media. Because models pose for short periods of time, the artist must learn to work rapidly to capture the “gesture” of the pose, while generating the structural form of the model’s figure. Highlights and shadows are essential components of structure and must be regarded to be equally important as the contour of the figure. Students need to learn to focus on this in drawing from the live model. The drawings on this post represent images made directly from a live model in under twenty minutes, however, some had been made during multiple poses. Drawings sizes are pictured roughly proportional with one another; the average size is 18×24″.

Clothed Figure-Class

sketchbook figure

sketchbook figure 2

five minute figure

The drawings above are sketches made with graphite or pencil in ten minutes or less. The drawings below are made with charcoal in five minutes or less.

one minute gesture2

two minute contour2

The drawings below have been made with charcoal and colored chalk from poses held for more than twenty minutes or multiple sessions.

Prone figure

Lying figure

extended figure study

Crayon figure study