Excited about the success I had at last week’s open studio session at The Plastic Club in Philadelphia, where, for the first time, I...

Tonight was the first time I took my set of 12 Staedtler Mars Lumograph graphite pencils to an open studio session at The Plastic Club...

Last week, at my Intro to Pencil Drawing class at Studio Incamminati, we finished our first drawing from a plaster cast. Until this...

For the past couple weeks, both in class and for homework, Katya Held, my teacher at Studio Incamminati, assigned me several head plates...

At the very first open studio, or “drink-n-draw”, that I attended in Nashville, TN, I truly had no clue what to bring or what to do. The...

My drawing of Bargue Plate No. 23 At last week’s drawing class and over this past week for homework, the concentration was arms, using...

My drawing of Bargue Plate No. 16 For homework this week at the Intro To Drawing class at Studio Incamminati, we were each given a plate...

My drawing of Bargue Plate No. 32 I know this is only a 10-week course, but jumping from Bargue Plates numbers 5 and 7 last week to...

I have been working on this drawing for several weeks from a reference photo on the Croquis Café web site. The model’s name is Cwen and I...

My rendering of Bargue’s Plate No. 7 After going to the open studio at Studio Incamminati several times, and speaking to a few of the...

We’re already four days into 2019. At my first open studio session of the year, I tried graphite pencil instead of the charcoal pencils I...

I’ve been watching several artists do quick gesture or croquis drawings using only abstract shapes – circles, squares, cones, etc. Then,...

I’ve been using blending stumps since I first started dabbling in drawing. These stumps, also called tortillions,  are cylindrical shaped...

I mentioned the Croquis Café site in a previous post – I had found a video posted by them on Vimeo that gave instruction on how to draw...

I recently stumbled across a video on Vimeo posted by The Croquis Cafe which gave tips on how to draw reclining figures. It addressed the...

Today I revisited the Rodin Museum here in Philadelphia to sketch from his sculptures once again. As I mentioned in my post on October...

With all the things to keep in mind while drawing – materials, medium, gesture, proportion, perspective, angle, lighting – it’s easy to...

I don’t have very much experience with reclining models. And the little experience I do have with them, hasn’t produced very good...

Tonight I discovered the Rittenhouse Drawing Club. A private studio in the Rittenhouse section of the city that offers an open studio...

I think I found my school here in Philadelphia.  The style of drawing and painting to which I keep returning as a source of inspiration...