Category Archives: Pastel and Conté crayon

I usually like to use these materials for quick figure studies. I prefer to work on a toned pastel paper which functions as a middle ground onto which a few strokes of light or dark or both are enough to stimulate the imagination, allowing the figure, like magic, to emerge.

Figure Drawing, August 3, 2015

A good model tonight – and a few drawings to show for it.

The spotlighted study is one fifteen minute pose. Conté pencil heightened with conté crayon on toned pastel paper. 32.5 x 50 cm or 13 x 19 3/4 in.

Here below are two four minute gesture studies. 35 x 50 cm. or 13 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.

Figure Drawing, July 27, 2015

A fruitful evening with a good model.

Four fifteen minute poses. One spotlighted above and three here below. Conté pencil on toned pastel paper. 32.5 x 50 cm or 13 x 19 3/4 in.

 

Three four minute poses. Charcoal on toned sketching paper. 35 x 50 cm. or 13 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.