Life drawing.
Medium: Pitt Artist Pen and white grease pencil highlights on toned Utrecht paper.
Dimensions:12″(h) x 9 1/2″(w)
Date: 1/14/13
signed: Darn
Price: $350 shipping included
Life drawing.
Medium: Pitt Artist Pen and white grease pencil highlights on toned Utrecht paper.
Dimensions: 9 1/2″(h) x 12″(w)
Date: 2/8/13
signed: Darn
Price: $250 shipping included
Labored over an illustrating gig, got back in court to sketch at a murder trial, and drawing out and about both solo and with friends. No change in materials though the smaller drawings are in a Pentalic book w/ unlined, ivory colored paper. Has some bleed thru traits so I probably won’t use one of these again once I finish with it. Not being able to draw on both sides checks the number of spreads I’ll do and means I don’t get full use out of one. I do like how they’re bound and the cover’s nice but they have a touch too deep of a gutter. Fountain pen inks wanna seep thru the page. The drawings on toned paper, which I favor when drawing in court, are in a Utrecht sketchbook.
 
The fellow in the green shirt, a witness at a murder trial, the guy who discovered the body of the victim, was getting a rough going over from the defense attorney.
 
Threw in some life drawings from the old haunt, the Palette & Chisel, from Feb & Jan. Heading off to Texas later this month while I’ll try to run down some life drawing venues there, not to mention some of that awesome central Texas BBQ. Maybe I can find some bar-b-que slathered nudes to draw while I’m at it.
 
 
 
 
Oh and uhm, here’s a recent sketch for an illustration job I just finished just to show folks I do, once in a blue moon, pick up a pencil and noodle around with them.
Caught Larry Coryell wit Paul Wertico and Larry Gray at The Jazz Showcase in Chicago. Terrific performance by a hopped up trio. Had a decent vantage point with enough overhead light to see what I was drawing. In the drawing on the CTA transit system, bottom right, the guy with the shaggy hair reminder me of “Shaggy” Rogers  from Scooby Doo. Fountain pen w/ Noodler’s Ottoman Blue ink, Pitt Artist Brush Pens, including a new White PAP, and white China marker. The toned paper is an older Cachet, pre Daler-Rowney buyout, sketch book that keeps a crisper edge than the toned Utrecht sketch books I make heavy use of.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
Sorry to have neglected the website for so long, but now that I’m back from a 2 month road trip, I will put forth a flurry of sketches from across the country. You can see drawings from that trip if you go to: doncolleyroadtrip.tumbler.com. Drawn in an old doctor’s ledger book from 1937 and in a Utrecht toned sketchbook with Pitt Artist Pens and my old pal, the white China marker, aka the grease pencil. Cheers, Darn