Reclining Nude - #3714 by Candy Barr

9 x 12 inches Charcoal on Paper

Another short pose from the dancer model at the 

Los Feliz Drawing Meetup in Jennifer McChristian's studio 

so many other terrific LA graphic artist types...

Good company!

Nude Dancer #3714 by Candy Barr

9 x 12 inches charcoal on paper

I finally made it to the Los Feliz Drawing night! 

Visiting LA to visit my 19 month old grandson, I had a night off for good behavior to draw.

What an incredible model, who is a dancer, and posed exquisitely for short poses all night long.

And a good crowd sharing the studio of the wonderful painter
Jennifer McChristian
I recommend anyone visiting LA allow yourself a session run by her
terrific husband Ben.

Elbow study - #9713 by Candy Barr

3 x 3 inches Oil on canvas board

4 x 6 approx inches Oil on wood

On the first Thursday of the month Billy Brauer's life drawing evening consists of short poses for 2 hours.  So Billy joked as I did 10 small studies from 2 min long to 15 min long, "Candy not only does a painting a day, she does a painting every 15 minutes."  Very funny

Fingers Touching - #8513 by Candy Barr

 4 x 5 approx inches Oil on wood

Male Back Torso - #3911

5 x 7 inches Oil on canvas board

$99 + S/H

Two more quickies of AJ with a head full of dreadlocks..fun to paint.

AJ Head - #3511

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply

$99. + S/H

This is one of 9 quick studies of AJ. From 2 minute poses to 20 minute poses. I find the 2 minute ones can look insane but the freedom of line is an important discovery in itself. I like to see brush work, and without time to ponder it, terrific surprises can happen!

2 Minute Portrait - #3311

6 x 6 inches Oil on birch ply

These 2 minute poses and doing a "portrait" in oils keeps my eye sharp, and they are so much fun to do!

Take a look a Emer Bischoff's work...
I always loved the California Bay Figurative artists

from the book:
During the 1950s a few painters in the San Francisco Bay Area began to stage personal, dramatic defections from the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism, creating what would come to be known as Bay Area Figurative Art. In 1949 David Park destroyed many of his nonobjective canvases and began a new style of consciously naive figuration. Soon Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn joined Park and other painters such as Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, James Weeks, and Paul Wonner in the move away from abstraction and toward figurative subject matter. When artists such as Bruce McGaw, Manuel Neri, and Joan Brown emerged as a second generation of figurative artists, the momentum grew for a powerful new development in American painting.

Nude Back Torso Study

4 x 4 x 1 inches Oil on wood block

$99 + S/H

These are from tonight's short poses as I carry them home in my pizza box.
I'll be posting these over the weekend and next week.