Rick
Sister
Michele
Thip
Machiko
Niece
Fuzo
Flo
Sketchbook
in sketchbook
May 22, 2020. The rear entrance to my apartment.
May 24, 2020
May 24, 2020
May 26, 2020
May 26, 2020. First time on a subway in close to 3 months. A little anxiety ridden.
May 26, 2020. Masks abound on the subway.
Virtual Sittings
I realized one of the objectives as I did more of these virtual sittings was to improve my portraiture skills using oil paints. So for this batch, aside from the first one, I transitioned to using oils. These virtual sittings are sequential. There are a few goals I want to achieve painting these portraits: 1. Get really comfortable painting portraits with oil paints. 2. Not to be precious about these portraits, meaning that I have to let go of making these portraits look like the sitters. They don’t have to. These are oil sketches. It’s a space where I could practice my colour sensitivity abilty to finish a portrait in one sitting.
Ren. My second sitting with her.
Mother and daughter.
Jim. The first sitting in oils with a person who wasn’t a family member.
Yvonne.
Yvonne detail. I love the amount of paint applied on this one.
Marc
Ayumi
Esteban and Anna. Trying to conserve paper in my sketchbook.
Anna
Jim. My second sitting.
Verena
I like this spread.
Robyn, my go to sitter.
Sister
oil on masonite.
10x12 inches.
Sketchbook Dump
May 18, 2020. I like the idea of using a mirror to reflect part of my body and the space behind me. This might be a painting in the making.
May 19, 2020. After the feet in the mirror drawing, I realized I had to work on depicting my feet accurately. Hence this spread.
May 20, 2020. Getting a little stir crazy in my apartment and craving some fresh air while maintaining self isolation. Fortunately I have a small back porch that looks onto a parking pad area which is quite often used by people late at night as an alternate toilet site. This is my neighbourhood.
May 22, 2020. Inspired by my last drawing of the parking pad, here’s another perspective from the end of the pad looking back tot he rear entry to my unit. All this drawing happened before my morning coffee. I think all this self isolation is affecting me and might happen again tomorrow morning.
Virtual Sittings
Daniel
My second attempt at Gabe.
Jennifer
Andrew
Sketchbook
Looking to the ground today for my drawing inspiration. There might be a painting in this!
Ren
A virtual sitting with a friend today who lives in Halifax. Isn’t technology great? I’ll have a second chance next weekend to get her right.
May 15, 2020. Sketch of my rat hole, err… I meant, apartment. With all this self isolation, it’s been a great opportunity to sketch everyday. I don’t know if it feels like a habit though. I read somewhere that doing something for 21 days straight forms a habit. To be quite frank, if i didn’t sketch tomorrow, I’m not too sure i’d have the urge to sketch. It’s more guilt, I suspect, that would drive me to sketch since I want to make art the primary source of income for me. I need to produce art EVERY DAY. It doesn’t have to be great art. It just has to be art.
Sketchbook
Trying to capture space through my drawings instead of just objects.
Pasquale
My talented animator/caricaturist friend.
Sketchbook
By the time isolation is called off, I think I’ll have sketched every inch of my apartment. Here’s the next interesting spot of my rat hole, errr… I meant, apartment.
Sketchbook
An interior sketch and a virtual sketch of a friend. I asked my friend to sit by the window for his sitting and over the course of an hour, the light changed so much. It was a challenge getting this drawing done.
Brian
Sketchbook
in sketchbook
Trying to get into a habit of drawing everyday, especially now during the covid self isolation.
Daily Practice, Virtual Sittings
Heather
Martha
Ana, first sitting
Ana, second sitting
Grant
Carol
Elana
Tope
Robyn
30 Faces, 30 Days, final week
So I finally finished this challenge and I’m a bit late with uploading my final batch of self portraits. But, really, no one’s looking over my shoulder. So without further ado, here are my final entries into this challenge. The one up side to this challenge is that it made me draw everyday. Doing something everyday for 21 days forms a habit doesn’t it? Well, I’m still drawing since I stopped thi schallenge so may it’s true?
April 22
April 23
April 25
April 28
April 29
April 30
April 30, bonus
Daily Practice, Virtual Sittings continued
April 25
April 25
April 26, Mother & Daughter
April 26
Virtual Sittings, continued.
I glad I have so many friends who are willing to sit for me via video apps. My go to model is my niece. She’s a trooper. But also a big thanks to my friend, Thip who sat for me over two nights. I’m getting closer to her likeness, but I might need another sitting to accurately depict her.
April 24.
I decided to change mediums today. Inspired and a little fearful of doing a quick oil sketch of my niece. I like the result. I like the looseness and energy of this portrait. I’ll have to try to channel this mind set to future finished paintings.
April 22.
First sitting with Thip. I wasn’t too excited about this when I finished it but I think it turned out to be the better of the two.
April 23.
Twinings Green Teabag
12x15 in.
oil on masonite
Availablle
I finally finished this. There were things I set out to do in this painting, and I achieved them and other things that need more work. That’s what the next painting is for!
To see the finished piece, click here.
30 Faces, 30 Days Chalenge, Week 3, April 15-21
It was a bit of slog this week as I drew myself. Part of me thought about just getting the work done. Keep churning out stuff. And through that production I’ll get better. I now also have three weeks of self portraits that I could look back on to assess my progression. Here are a few thoughts: 1. I have a tendency to elongate my face. It’s quite obvious in this week’s drawings. I’ll have to be keep that in mind is this last week’s drawings. 2. I’m losing track of one of the objectives of this challenge which is to just bang them out. The week 1 drawings were the ones I produced in the shortest amount of time, the most accurate and loosest. I’m tightening up right now and need to return to my week 1 mentality.
April 15
April 16
April 17
April 18
April 19
April 20
April 21
Video Sitting Sessions
Over the last few days i’ve been asking friends and family to sit for me via Skype, Zoom or any other video app. The video apps tend to have poor resolution so it’s been an advantage for me because I could only sketch the general facial landmarks of my sitters’ faces. I got away from being too detailed with my drawings.
Niece
Niece
Patricia
Niece
Sister
Rick. Sold.
Sketchbook
The covid-19 induced self isolation has allowed me the time (and hopefully discipline) to concentrate on all areas of my art practice. I’ve been concentrating on painting and the 30 faces challenge but i’ve been hankering just to sketch. So tonight I sketched what was in front of me. It’s a bit of this and a bit of that: my paint bench, my computer table and my foot.
30 Faces, 30 Days. April 8-14
Continuing with this challenge. I’m still in a mind set of what is a different way of drawing my face than the previous day’s iteration, be it through different medium or angle. Maybe I should just choose the same medium and pose and try to concentrate on depicting my face so it transcends it just being a self portrait and touches upon the deeper aspects of what makes my face my face. At least I’m aware of this mindset.
April 8, 2020
April 9, 2020
April 10, 2020
April 11, 2020
April 13, 2020
April 14, 2020