Hey all, long time, no post.  I finally got back to figure drawing tonight.  It had been a couple of months due to a Linux command line class I’ve been taking on Monday nights.  Yeah, Linux command line instead of figure drawing.  Where the hell are my priorities?  Well, a couple of months off seemed to treat me well.  I liked my drawings tonight.  Good lighting and a great model helped as well.  But I was looking forward to going tonight whereas it had been a slog for a while to attend the drawing session.  I guess some time off occasionally is helpful.  Here’s to more art in 2012.  I think it’s about time I start doing something with it.

I have this pack of Chartpak markers that had been sitting around gathering dust for a few years, so I decided to take them to figure drawing tonight.  It took me a few drawings to start to get the hang of them.  I only like two drawing from tonight.  The rest are crap that I’m not going to put on the internet.

Our model tonight was the indefatigable Kelli Bland.  I always end up with good drawings when Kelli models. Here’s a couple of past drawings, for example:

Good lord, I just realized that the first drawing is almost exactly three years old.  Have I really been in Austin that long?  Have I really been doing weekly figure drawings that long? No wonder the portfolio I filled with paintings on paper weighs about 40 pounds.

Here’s a couple from tonight, after I’d gotten used to the markers:

So it’s been a while since I’ve posted.  In between my last post and now I’ve taken a trip home and changed residences.  I’ve been busy and couldn’t find my camera for a while.  So I have a fair amount of stuff built up to post.  I’ve continued the acrylic paintings and drawing sessions.

So here it all is.  I’m just gonna lay it out here.

Sunday after the Art Erotica I was back at the AVAA for the figure drawing.  This is where I learned some consider referring to an AIDS charity benefit as a “sausage fest” to be bad manners.  I still think it’s funny.  I’ve also made a few tweaks to this website.  I installed the All In One SEO Pack plugin to optimize it for search engines as well as Statpress Reloaded to track my visitor statistics.  I check it far too many times a day.  I get all excited when I see a hit on my site from a Google Image search for “drippy paintings.”  I also put up an icon for the RSS feed.  Because, evidently, people use them.

Monday I painted at the Austin Figurative Gallery.  Every third Monday we’ve started to do 2 hour poses instead of a bunch of 15 minute ones.  It’s nice to have the extra time.  Here’s the result.  It’s an acrylic painting on a gessoed piece of plywood.

Next on the list for site tweaks, I need to figure out a way to encourage more comments and redo the galleries.