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Today Is The Last Day For My Flat File Sale!

The sale has been very successful, and I'm thrilled so many artworks are escaping the flat file drawers and going out into the world to be appreciated. Today is the last day of the sale, and I wanted to highlight a few of the remaining artworks.

This demonstration was created for one of my online workshops focusing on "Grisaille". In person you can really see the warmth of the under sketch coming through the intentional gaps in the gray top-painting. Temperature and light quality were of note in the lectures, and it was fun to explore those concepts in oils with this demo.

This was my first drawing of the plaster teeth casts- I have a small collection of these, and they've appeared in a few of my favorite drawings over the years. This was drawn using graphite on wood panel with acrylic gesso as the white heightening. It looks like a relatively simple drawing, but it really put me though it! When I shared this for the first time online I captioned it "graphite and frustration on panel", which I think is a fine title.

It's rare that anything ever finds it way out of my sketchbook- I don't like to cut or tear out pages. This page is from one of my Fabriano sketchbooks and was shown in The New Baroque exhibition at Booth Gallery in 2017. It's mostly graphite and features my good friend Tina's portrait overlapping a mastercopy of van Dyck's painting of "Charles I at the Hunt". I was very interested in classic portrait compositions of two heads overlapping at the time, and this was a fun page created to explore that theme.

New Still-Life Club Photos Have Arrived

June has been a bit wild for me, but I finally got around to working out a new still-life theme for the month. Hop over to Still-Life Club on The Open Sketchbook website to check out the main photo. Here's the alternate that isn't freely available on the website (unless you're a Virtual Studio member):

I've been very interested in the contrast between real and remembered lately, and of course that finds its way into real and idealized representations. The old horse skull, missing its mandible, stretched out in front of the horse cast behind it is a pretty powerful image, I think. I'm working on a drawing of the skull in my studio- it's a wonderfully complex subject!

Thanks for being here- more soon: courses, in-person workshops, season two of the podcast, and more...

Happy drawing,
Evan​​

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