Sylvie Guillot. "In the Box 4 - Marine" charcoal and pastel on paper. Guillot was born on Paris and studied at the Paris School of Fine Arts. She now lives and works in San Francisco. I love the energy in her drawings.
Sir Oswald Hornby Joseph Birley - Miss Muriel Gore in a Fortuny dress, 1919. Mariano Fortuny was a Spanish fashion designer, who with his wife Henriette, designed the "Delphos Gown".
Pierre Bonnard. Woman with Basket of Fruit, 1918, Baltimore Museum of Art. Bonnard had a whimsical side allowing his dog Poucette to make cameo appearances.
Catherine Kehoe, SP on Yom Kippur 2010, oil on board 6"x5". That little dash of lime green for her glasses is pure brilliance. Kehoe teaches painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
I appear to be shifting toward a Mannerist sensibility with my new images. Image One, a chalk drawing by lead supervisor Francesco Primaticcio is a study for a painted ceiling at Fontainebleau.. Image Two is one of mine.
Portrait of Vita Sackville-West by Philip de Laszlo, 1909. Great use of black to "frame" her head and torso.
Edmund Tarbell, The Venetian Blind 1898. Tarbell was one of a group of remarkable American painters at the turn of the 20th century including Sargent, Chase, Cassatt, and Benson.
Herman "Kofi" Bailey 1931-1981. I met Bailey in 1980. He lived near campus and would show up with conte in hand to find drawing subjects.
@artmodelandrew Hi Andrew. Hope we agree to disagree. I see it as a visual riff on the drawings of Schiele and Degas who would use a slab of tone against their figures to offset them from the background.
"Robert and Sky" by Evan Kitson, Graphite, Red Chalk, & Shellac. Kitson works and teaches drawing in New York. I love his willingness to get dirty and push the materials about (he did some training with Odd Nerdrum). Great sketchbooks.