And some figure drawings from last month and two I just began this month. Sorry for the really bad images, but there is no good lighting here at school to take pictures...

Well, just some portraits from this last month...

So the one at the left is by Bastien L. one of my favorite artists, the one at the 'tis mine trying to imitate the style of drawing of the 19th century french academy.

Some drawings from school... the beginning of the end for this year... he he

This is my other work so far, the first one is from T&T night class, the second one from our weekly blocking sessions and the las one is my most recent cast, and I'm kind of sad that school is coming to an end this year... things had gotten  lot better in the hole NY experience. I'm so happy and thankful for this opportunity that has been given to me and really want to make the best out of it.

Ok so here is the amount of work I've been doing in my cast of the horse. I'm learning so much from treating it differently that what the main aesthetic of the school is. That is a smoother surface appearance, if you look at my other cast drawings or at other students work from the school you will see what I'm talking about. I'm still following the concept taught at school just I'm applying them into my own appreciation of the things I see, and how can I make it feel more alive than just have the object sit in space in front of me, beautifully rendered.

Don't get me wrong, school is amazing!!! I'm just trying to find out, as my investigation deepens on 19th century painting and drawing techniques, how on earth those painters back then gave us pictures that breath and move in their confinement of the frame. Landscapes that make you feel the breeze, weather and what the artist felt in that moment in that place. Portraits that not only give us likeness of the person, but they rap the character and psychology of the sitter. Narrative paintings of events that we didn't experience or saw and yet there they are before our eyes as we were part of it. 

That's an other thing I've been putting my head around... narrative painting. paintings that say something and there are not just art for art sake.

O Wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! 

How beauteous mankind is! 

O brave new world! That has such people in't!

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

William Waterhouse, Miranda: The Tempest, painting

I just saw this painting in Sotherby's AMAZING feeling it recalls, wow is all I can say there is no picture on the internet that can make the justice of the color, texture and size of the painting. I never liked that particular pice from Waterhouse, but now that I saw it in person it's a totally different story. I can't believe is going to a private collection and is one of the last times it would see the light of public eye he he.