To New Waves

Wire and Toothpick Sculptures

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 | Posted in Felix, Sculpture by Felix | 1 Comment

Both of these are a bit messy, but are the result of exploring mediums new to me. The serpent is more than five feet long, and the toothpicks are shy of a foot tall.

Iron tie wire (first sculpture), toothpicks and Elmer’s glue (second sculpture)

Skull & Boot

Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 | Posted in Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing by Felix | No Comments

Here’s a value drawing from my drawing class.

226.5 (Compressed charcoal and conté crayon on paper)

Cut Paper Patterns

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010 | Posted in Felix by Felix | No Comments

I’m not counting these towards my drawing hours, but I wanted to show them off. Redoing a few old projects that I had sitting around in my portfolio. These are explorations of repetition, rotation and reflection.

Life in the Kitchen

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 | Posted in Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing by Felix | No Comments

A series of drawings over an evening, mostly documenting people as they came and went in the kitchen. Experimenting with a number of different stylistic approaches, though the actual medium is very similar throughout.





247.5 (Charcoal and graphite on paper)

Kitchen Triad

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 | Posted in Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing by Felix | No Comments

The latest in this series.



Ink and graphite on paper (224.5/1000)

Ink

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 | Posted in Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing by Felix | No Comments

We’re getting started with ink. Today the room was filled with plants in pots, with a few odd skulls and such scattered around for variety and to keep them company.

221.75 (Ink on newsprint)

Drawings Started and Finished

Friday, April 16th, 2010 | Posted in Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing by Felix | No Comments

Today was the last day for using vine charcoal in drawing class—next week we’ll be moving on to ink. In the interest of mixing things up and as a fun experiment, I decided to swap drawings after an early critique with another student in the class. Each drawing was worked on for an equal amount of time: I spent half an hour on the first and 1.5 hours on the second, while the opposite was true for her. Here are the results.

Drawing I started and she finished:

Drawing she started and I finished:

Vine charcoal on newsprint (220.75)

Tuesday’s Perspective Study

Friday, April 16th, 2010 | Posted in Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing by Felix | No Comments

Another newsprint drawing out of class. Today the junk was stacked vertically, in order to force the students to practice perspective. Above, below, and side-to-side. To me, it doesn’t look like much to show for two hours of drawing and measuring.

Charcoal on newsprint (218.5)

Disorganized Space

Thursday, April 8th, 2010 | Posted in Drawings, Felix, Life-Drawing by Felix | No Comments

Another day in the drawing class. Today I was working on conveying depth, mostly by muddling and erasing lines farther in the background. I’m not sure how well it worked out, but I like the overall effect.

216.5 (Charcoal on newsprint)

Piscesque

Thursday, April 8th, 2010 | Posted in Abstract, Drawings, Felix by Felix | No Comments

This is some sort of deep-sea fantasy creature that I’ve been doodling on-and-off for the past few days.

214.5/1000 (Ink on paper)