Scupture class

Hello!! Today I want to share with you this great new: this year I also took classes in sculpting natural clay! That was fantastic, it's a fantastic experience, I advise everyone to try this field of expression. First lessons were about drawing from life, trying to keep proportion with the object. We made the final bas relief from life, but we also made a study in charcoal in advance.

Charcoal, 297 x 420 mm

And the final work, after months of drying..

Dry clay, about 300 x 400 mm

The installation was a little different because we coundn't keep the objects in the same position throug time.

Still life

Here is a study I made recently during a collective drawing session. It is from life, in about three hours. I practiced measuring and chiaroscuro. I hope you enjoy. It's about 25x30 cm, pencil, charcoal pencil and white chalk on toned paper.

Figure Drawing at Florence Art Accademy

Hallo girls and guys!! Here are some drawings from the last months from the thursday free session of figure drawings at the Florence Art Academy.

3/3/2016 (couple of hours, charcoal on paper)

I'm quite satisfied with this. Maybe the head is slightly smaller then it was in reality. Also the left profile of the girls body could be a bit softer like the one of the arm. But I tried a bit too much to define form also to be sure that I understand them.

Still life

Here is a still life I made with charcoal (pencil, powder and sticks) some years ago (late 2010 or first months of 2011), It was done from life in about three hours. Some dark were added after using a spray fixative a couple of time. I like the settings, this are familiar objects, and after all I like this drawing, my eye was better traind at that time... but the base of the "tripod" object is wrong. Anyway,  charcoal is a good medium because it's forgiving, it' similar to (monochromatic) painting but easier to set up and cheaper. For me maybe can be hard to obtain details and little nuances with this medium, but this can be an advantage ad you can't lose yourself in details ;)

Drawing course 5

Another lesson from the old course. This lesson was self made, in the sense that I missed the class, and I totally made it without teacher's guide. I took advantages to experiment with carbon pencils and sticks by Cretacolor.It was a more loose and fast copy, but fun anyway. I advise you to change the material you use. It's true that's enough a pencil and a kneaded eraser to explore such a lot of worlds, but even changing can nurture and renew the passion in drawing. Beside the brain is stimulated by new and different possibilities of a different expression.

The original

From an advertisment

This is quite old drawing. This come from 2010, the time of the drawing course. I copied a picture from a well-known commercial.. I hope I'm not violating some rule here >_<
I used charcoal pencil for the rocks. Chalk sticks for sky and water (only few primary colors), sanguigne and sepia pencil for the red rocks. I think also some touches with few oil pastel, diluted with turpentine. I tried to reproduce the fog effect with white pastel, but only got a burnishing effect. I forgot the boy is in marker.

Figure Drawing 12/02/15

Sessione di disegno libera con modella alla Florence Art. Questa volta ho preparato un foglio Fabriano (33 x 48) con un mezzo tono a polvere di carboncino. Ho così lavorato priva verso i contorni, poi le parti scure e quelle chiare, sempre con carboncino, e pezzetti di carbone (salice e varii). Partire dai mezzi toni facilità un po' lo svolgimento: da una parte non abbiamo più il foglio bianco, dall'altra possiamo percorrere due strade per ottenere ciò che cerchiamo in termine di tono.

e in fine dopo qualche ritocco a casa...

Montalbano

Studio del caro Montalbano con sanguigna e seppia (luglio 2013).

Another sketch of the Monte Albano done with sepia, charcoaland sanguigne by cretacolor (two pages of a A4 sketbook). I tried to render near - medium - far distance with these colors, also dosing the pressure (july 2013).

Vista da malmantile

Colli intorno a Malmantile, Lastra a Signa, a carboncino (06/2012).

Hills around Malmantile, a tiny and beautiful village with some ruins of a castle. This was done on location with charcoal (june 2012).