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

Friday, February 29, 2008




February 29th 2008



Monday, February 25, 2008



Sunday, February 24, 2008

February 22nd 2008


Nupastel on newsprint.
Hey Lifers; I've recently tried ticking the large thumbnail button when uploading...on the right of the upload window...seems to be a more viable viewing size, if anyone is interested in doing the same.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Guenther



This is pastel on high-grade pastel paper.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Thurs. 14th February 2008







conte crayon and watercolour and brush on bond paper.

Saturday, February 16, 2008


"Halleluja!"
chalk pastel on kraft paper
18 x 24

"Tai Chi moves"
chalk pastel on kraft paper
18 x 24



"Electric"
chalk pastel on kraft paper
18 x 24



"Cool Room"
chalk pastel on kraft paper
9 x 12



"Gestures I"
chalk pastel on kraft paper
18 x 24




"Gestures II"
chalk pastel on kraft paper
18 x 24

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.

H Gestures 1, 2 and 3












Gestures are always fun.

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
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.
It deserves a post so here it is: the excellent poster with drawing 'phone-phobic', wizardess of acronyms, made for us. Hopefully you've been seeing it around in coffee houses, at the galleries, and on community websites like The Cumberlander. Thanks J.

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

7th February 2008





Saturday, February 9, 2008

Chris





6"X4" graphite on acid-free white paper (Bateman Series sketchbook)

Friday, February 8, 2008


"Starting to Shiver"
9 x 12 chalk pastel on BFK Rives

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...

Friday, February 1, 2008

Nude 1




Charcoal on newsprint
January 31 2008



Watercolour and brush and one Nupastel on bond paper.


Juanita--January 31






January 24


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


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