Illustration

Speed Drawing!

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.

Henri Matisse

Taking a break from digital media, I grabbed my charcoal and newsprint pad and joined the Brooklyn Artist’s Gym weekly quick pose model drawing group. Located in Park Slope’s revitalized Gowanus, BAG offers a studio setting for Brooklyn artists. Keeping the chalk gliding on the paper, the experience is a welcome contrast to the more controlled computer illustration. And since we’re consuming less, the naked human form is this season’s new silhouette.

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4 Comments

• On 06.09.09 Peter Hopkins wrote these pithy words:

  Beautiful work. I sooooo wish I had the ability to do more then hen-scratch on paper. Perhaps hen-scratching will evolve as a new art form….

• On 06.09.09 Stacy wrote these pithy words:

  Gorgeous, you have such a beautiful hand, Geof, your drawings are simply beautiful!

• On 06.11.09 JamesD wrote these pithy words:

  Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting

• On 10.22.09 Cristina Aguilar wrote these pithy words:

  Gorgeous drawings !!