Figure Drawings
contemporary male and female figure drawings,
figure paintings, and portraits
or the FIGURES EXHIBITS below.
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My figure drawings come in many forms, but they all express the sheer fun of drawing. I love every kind of drawing, from simple black-on-white line drawings in graphite, charcoal, or ink, to richly textured drawings in colored media such as dry or oil pastel and colored pencil. I love line, and a strong line drawing provides the foundation for almost all my figures, no matter how abstract they may become. My lifelong quest in drawing has been to develop an expressive, spontaneous, and fluid line and stroke. Therefore I especially like figure drawing, because of the human figure's sensuous forms and the life and energy it brings as a subject to the act of drawing. My male and female figure drawings always begin with live models. For male figures, I like to emphasize the complexity of the musculature of the figure with interesting line and shading; with female figures I do more abstractions from the major sensuous shapes of the body. I often like to start with an unexpected angle on the pose to challenge the viewer with unusal shapes. Many of my figure drawings combine drawing with other media. I often draw over painted backgrounds or collage, for example, to add rich colors or textures to traditional drawing media like graphite or colored pencil. Adding collage and other media to my drawings contributes intensity that is hard to achieve in graphite, for example, or detailing that is hard to achieve in expressionistic pencil or pastel work. The inspiration for my figure drawings and paintings comes from powerful Renaissance realists like Michaelangelo, and modern masters of sensuality like Gauguin, Klimt, Matisse, Degas, and Van Gogh. Contemporary art has branched off in many new directions, but figure drawing adapts and retains its universal and timeless appeal.
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