Pirogh Hesse

Marianne is a new model at l'ESAD: she’s a little tense and kept her panties.

charcoal, about 50x65cm. Life figure sketches, about 15mn.

Miguel at l'ESAD. Charcoal, about 42x30cm. Life figure sketches, about 15mn.

Clarinha at l'ESAD. Charcoal, about 65x50cm. Life figure sketch, about 15mn.

The first one combines apples, teapots, a coffee maker and I used charcoal on a kraft paper, The second one is a composition of bottles, using a sepia pastel pencil.

About 30x42cm.

Tiyi at l'ESAD. Charcoal, about 50x65cm. Life figure sketch, about 15mn.

Clarinha at la Guitoune. Sanguine, about 65x50cm. Life figure sketch, about 15mn.

In february 2021, Kenzo Fry, from the Love-Life-Drawing web site, animated the Figuary 2020 event, together with excellent tutorials and advises. In march 2021, the drawing classes at l'EDSAD brutally stopped, due to the covid have come to a sudden halt due to the pandemic and strict lockdown. So, I finally subscribed to online lectures with Kenzo Fry at Love-Life-Drawing. The lectures focuses on life drawing sketches, wih concepts such as landmarks, boxes, simplification and gesture.

We also trained to short time drawings, here 3mn and 2mn:

The rerences for these drawings are photographs of models from the Croquis Cafe data base. Charcoal, about 65x50cm.

I started to study ink at l'ESAD with a night view of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral:

I based on a reference photography and used chinese ink with pen and brush, it is of about 32x50xcm. Then, I mixed it with charcoal and few color inks:

This is a personnal interpretation of the famous Gauguin's armchair painted by Van Gogh in 1888.

I discovered Lane Brown by the two presentation [part 1, part 2] by Kenzo Fry from the excellent Love-Life-Drawing web site. Lane Brown uses charcoals. I was very impressioned, I studied his style and try to reproduce some of its drawings.

Photographies of the original work by Lane Brown can be founded in [L1, L2, L3, L4 ], also archived as [A1, A2, A3, A4 ].

Charcoal, about 65x50cm.

I started to study charcoal at l'ESAD with a still-life:

I then turn to a portrait:

The model is Alice from Croquis Cafe: I worked from a video capture from the week 459, at 11'45'' of the video (8th pose). Unfortunately, the access videos became later non more free.

Charcoal, about 65x50cm.