Wash Painting/Drawing Donated to Westridge Elementary

This is a drawing I did for the silent auction at Westridge Elementary.  They have an auction and a carnival every year to raise money for the school.  Sorry for the arm and head reflection in the framed photo.  This is a wash (Ground ink stick) and charcoal drawing/painting. FR Gruger worked in a similar style.

Studies after Michelangelo

 

All of these are for sale on etsy:

They are all brown/sepia ink with a wash of watercolor.  

Beaux-Arts Academy Arts & Architecture in UTAH!!!!!

Its not very often that I post something that isn't my own art.  Why? because this is my art blog.  Anyway I am going to be attending a school in Salt Lake City that will teach arts and architecture in a classical and traditional way.  Everything from wash rendering to multi-figure painting.  I have been waiting for training like this for years.....and I am so excited.  This is the website http://www.baa-utah.com/ .

Charcoal, Wash Drawing, after Frederic Rodrigo Gruger (FR Gruger)

This is the beginning and ending of a copy that I did of after Frederic Rodrigo Gruger.  He would usually start with a light drawing, then wash, and wolff carbon pencil.  I can't find anywhere that still sells a wolf pencil in the grades that he used.  Bummer!!!