Blog contributers are members of The Cumberland Lifers drawing group and other drawing groups in the Comox Valley and between Qualicum Beach and Campbell River. Posts are drawings, info and notes or links to items of interest regarding figurative drawing and painting.
The current drop-in sessions of Cumberland Lifers meet weekly on Thursday evenings 7pm-9:30pm during winter until beginning of March. Cost is $10 usually, sometimes less depending on turnout. For more info and to get on our emailing list contact cpowsey@shaw.ca
If you are interested in drawing with the Comox Life Drawing Group contact info@marinerslookout.ca
If you are interested in the Campbell River Open Studio drawing group contact contact@crartgallery.ca
If you are interested in the TOSH Qualicum Beach life drawing group contact qbtosh@shaw.ca
If you are interested in life drawing at The Muir Gallery in Courtenay contact info@comoxvalleyarts.org
The current drop-in sessions of Cumberland Lifers meet weekly on Thursday evenings 7pm-9:30pm during winter until beginning of March. Cost is $10 usually, sometimes less depending on turnout. For more info and to get on our emailing list contact cpowsey@shaw.ca
If you are interested in drawing with the Comox Life Drawing Group contact info@marinerslookout.ca
If you are interested in the Campbell River Open Studio drawing group contact contact@crartgallery.ca
If you are interested in the TOSH Qualicum Beach life drawing group contact qbtosh@shaw.ca
If you are interested in life drawing at The Muir Gallery in Courtenay contact info@comoxvalleyarts.org
Friday, February 29, 2008
Monday, February 25, 2008
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Bojidarka
This is an image I acquired in Montpellier, France, last June. I met this artist, Bojidarka, at a solo show she produced herself at a makeshift gallery on a quiet street in the centre of the city. I love her work. It reminds me a little of Egon Shiele. This is the kind of image creation to which I aspire.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Seamus Berkeley
Check this out Lifers. This is a stop-action demonstration of portrait painting. I haven't seen anyone with the technique he's developed. It's just amazing seeing the image of a person come together a little at a time from a blank piece of paper with no preliminary drawing. This is just crazy, but fun to watch.
http://www.seamusberkeley.com/Seamus_Berkeley_Fine_Art_Paintings/Videos/Videos.html
http://www.seamusberkeley.com/Seamus_Berkeley_Fine_Art_Paintings/Videos/Videos.html
Hey Lifer's; I just added a banner for the blog using J.'s poster. Tentative...any feedback on how it looks? I had to rough in some tone at the far left and right and stretch it out a bit to make it the right shape and fit in. Generally I like it but it might want some tuning. Any suggestions here or to the emailing list! Cheers and have a good weekend.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
For those who love colour!
Scroll Down to the section on drawing links to "ColourLovers" for some colour inspiration. You can design your own palette or choose one of several thousand others...
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Hello Lifers, I've just found an interesting resource site from Michael Hirsh's blog Articles and Texticles (A&T's is an interesting resource site itself). There is a site out of Japan that has anatomical figurative poses in a multitude of positions and provides exellent reference for drawings or study. Here is the site: Posemaniacs, and I've put the link on the drawing links down below as well. There is more here than initially meets the eye; if you find the 'drag' control at the bottom right of the image you can animate walk cycles or movement cycles or rotate the image, depending on how they've configured it. No substitute for life drawing, but interesting nevertheless!
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Saturday, February 9, 2008
Friday, February 8, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Sunday, February 3, 2008
A model post.
Here's a post dedicated to the exellent and hardworking models we've been lucky to get, and lifers...and models...might be interested in this item. Joseph Dunn, one of our members who missed the last session but nevertheless managed to forge a path to the Waverly Hotel to join us for our after-class-calmer-downers, brought to our attention a strike currently raging in the heartland of figurative art. You can read a newspaper article about it here.
Here's a quick summary:
Only 50 of the 300 models at Italy's art institutions, both male and female, have contracts for full time work, the remainder are hired by the hour. They are currently paid 25 Euros an hour and are on strike for better pay and conditions. The item ends with an art critic saying that, despite the cold and poor pay there will always be people willing to do the work for the chance to be immortalized in great art.
We'd better stop using newsprint and that brown craft paper if we're going to do any immortalizing...
Here's a post dedicated to the exellent and hardworking models we've been lucky to get, and lifers...and models...might be interested in this item. Joseph Dunn, one of our members who missed the last session but nevertheless managed to forge a path to the Waverly Hotel to join us for our after-class-calmer-downers, brought to our attention a strike currently raging in the heartland of figurative art. You can read a newspaper article about it here.
Here's a quick summary:
Only 50 of the 300 models at Italy's art institutions, both male and female, have contracts for full time work, the remainder are hired by the hour. They are currently paid 25 Euros an hour and are on strike for better pay and conditions. The item ends with an art critic saying that, despite the cold and poor pay there will always be people willing to do the work for the chance to be immortalized in great art.
We'd better stop using newsprint and that brown craft paper if we're going to do any immortalizing...
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Blog contributers are members of The Cumberland Lifers drawing group and other drawing groups in the Comox Valley and between Qualicum Beach and Campbell River. Posts are drawings, info and notes or links to items of interest regarding figurative drawing and painting.
The current drop-in sessions of Cumberland Lifers meet weekly on Thursday evenings 7pm-9:30pm at the The Cumberland Junior School January 20th to April 28th. Cost is $10 usually, sometimes less depending on turnout. For more info and to get on our emailing list contact cpowsey@shaw.ca
If you are interested in drawing with the Comox Life Drawing Group contact info@marinerslookout.ca
If you are interested in the Campbell River Open Studio drawing group contact contact@crartgallery.ca
If you are interested in the TOSH Qualicum Beach life drawing group contact qbtosh@shaw.ca
If you are interested in life drawing at The Muir Gallery in Courtenay contact info@comoxvalleyarts.org
The current drop-in sessions of Cumberland Lifers meet weekly on Thursday evenings 7pm-9:30pm at the The Cumberland Junior School January 20th to April 28th. Cost is $10 usually, sometimes less depending on turnout. For more info and to get on our emailing list contact cpowsey@shaw.ca
If you are interested in drawing with the Comox Life Drawing Group contact info@marinerslookout.ca
If you are interested in the Campbell River Open Studio drawing group contact contact@crartgallery.ca
If you are interested in the TOSH Qualicum Beach life drawing group contact qbtosh@shaw.ca
If you are interested in life drawing at The Muir Gallery in Courtenay contact info@comoxvalleyarts.org
Links to Lifer Contributors Websites
- Aline Hoffart
- Anya McLeod
- April Dyck
- Becky Wortman
- Brian Buckrell
- Carey Anderson
- Clive Powsey
- Corre Alice
- Corre Alice Gallery at Freelones
- Dorothy Manser
- Gillian Benard
- Helen Utsal
- Helen Yogini / Inspired Earth Projects
- Holly Grimm
- Jennifer Weber
- Jessica Titley
- Joe Gilland Website and Bloglinks
- Joe Ziner
- Joyce Lindemulder
- Judy Perrin
- Karen Martin Sampson
- Karen Martin Sampson Blog
- Lost Boys Learning
- Lost Boys Studios
- Lucy Schappy
- Marilyn Timms
- Mehdi Naimi
- Myshree Tsai
- Random Design Studio
- Roger Albert
- Sophie Skapski
- Teresa Knight
- Tim Gardner
- Tracy Kobus
Interesting Drawing Links
- Aardman Anim. life drawing
- Airport Drawers (Life Drawing)
- Au Natureal Art: The Nude in the Twenty-first Century
- Basic Inquiry Lifedrawing, Vancouver
- Bibliodyssey
- Bill Tomlinson Drawings
- Bodyscape/ Oliver Duhamel and a directory of life modelling groups worldwide
- Bristol Life Drawing
- Chloepiene
- ColourLovers
- Comox/Courtenay Plein Air Group
- Donald O. Colley
- Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School Blog
- Drawing Society of Canada
- Drawn!
- Eric Fischl
- Figurative Art Blog
- In the footsteps of the masters
- Lines and Colours
- Making a Mark
- Matt Jones
- Modele Vivant; a list of life drawing groups Canada wide
- Morbid Anatomy
- Museum of Forgotton Art Supplies
- Nick Raynolds
- Oscar Grillo
- Peter Moehrle
- Posemaniacs
- Project Gutenberg
- Rocket Fiction
- Scott Hamilton/100 portraits in 20 weeks
- Sublime Things
- The Art Model Handbook by Andrew Cahner
- Thomas Hendry
- Wendy Artin
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- Chris
- "Starting to Shiver"9 x 12 chalk pastel on BFK Rives
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