The model tonight was a new (to me) guy: Frank. Wow! Amazing! Very muscular, very athletic poses, a real Mars-bar with reddish hair and fair skin (playful and silly too). Big head proportionally – yet not out of proportion. A pleasure to draw. The four minute gesture poses really made my day. During the fifteen minute studies, I got a bit overwhelmed by my warm-toned pastels of a warm subject on that warm paper. Luckily, a few made the grade.

Black charcoal touched up with conté crayon. 32.5 x 50 cm. Or 13 x 19.75 in.

Five gesture studies. Black charcoal on tinted sketching paper. 35 x 50 cm. or 13.75 x 19.75 in.