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graphite on paper, 4 hours each morning
my next cast painting victim
Ready to start slapping some muscles on this guy next week
the view from school today
 This is how Lucy's afternoons at GCA are spent
working at home on weekends with the team
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It's February: dark and cold here in New York. A good time to crank down in the studio and put the hours in. The learning process is crushing and humbling, but I feel glimpses of progress. Everyone at GCA has great attitudes and senses of humor, which helps keep me psyched. It really is an amazing community there and I feel so grateful and excited that this is where I ended up.
This is the February pose in progress. Jacob Collins is working in our studio this month doing a painting demo and I'll be posting daily photos of his process on the GCA blog for anyone interested in how it's done. Here is my attempt. Definitely shows signs of improvement over my Dec & Jan drawings, but we'll see how the rest of it goes.
day 1
day 2
day 3
day 5 (forgot to take a photo on day 4)
close up on day 5
 day 8
January
December
 portrait study
the thing I call "bitch." Hoping to have a nicer relationship with my next cast painting.
Ecorche. I like this guy. We laugh a lot in this class, it's a nice break from the cast painting on Thurs afternoons. We're also doing a lot of anatomy drawings for this class, I can tell it's already helping my understanding of the figure, so cool!
Lucy dropping the hint: "when are you going to get me a dog bed for the studio"
My weekends are packed with projects as well. I just started working on compositional studies for a large(ish) studio painting using the field studies I did last summer. I'm SO EXCITED about this! Been dreaming of getting started on this since September but it's taken all year for my schedule to free up enough. I'm also finishing up some illustrations for Freddie Wilkinson's new book about K2, when it is published I'll post the artwork here.
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Recently finished and sent off for the holidays:
Pomeranian Trio, graphite on toned paper 11"x13"
Portrait of Poet, 6"x6" graphite on toned paper
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Saturday Dec 5th from 6-8 PM is the holiday benefit auction for the Institute of Classical Arts & Classical America. More info on the evening events HERE. This painting I did last summer is among the auction items.
"Lake Champlain" by Emilie Lee, oil on canvas 9"x10" 2009
I like this photo of the painting in progress on location. It was SO hot that day! Lucy and I were jumping in the water every 30 minutes.
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morning figure drawing class, graphite on paper
drawing in preparation for my next cast painting ... starting on monday
more portrait/skull studies ...
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morning figure drawing class, 80 hour pose
2nd cast painting, oil on linen 10"x11"
a few examples of my Tuesday afternoon portrait class studies
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Here is some of the work I did at GCA over the past month. It's so exciting not to be working on cast drawing anymore! I'm pumped.
Morning class: figure drawing. 80 hour pose. Taking it past the block-in stage and learning how to model the form.
Afternoon class: cast painting. Learning how to model the form in PAINT!!!! so awesome. this is my first one.
Evening class: Figure drawing with Travis Schlaht and Ted Minoff. 60 hour pose. This class is open to the public. HIGHLY recommended!
Tuesday afternoons: Portrait drawing and skull study. Learning the structure of the head inside & out.
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I'm back in school, starting my second year at the Grand Central Academy of Art, feeling so lucky and psyched to be studying alongside such amazing artists, and I mean both the students and teachers when I say that! I'm really honored to be among the scholarship recipients this year. Everyone at the GCA is amazing and I'm inspired daily by so many different people there, just check out this photo album to see what I mean!
We
are very pleased to announce the winners of GCA Scholarship Awards for
Academic Achievement in 2008 – 2009! The $7,500 and $2,500 prizes for
first and second place, respectively, are applied towards the following
year’s core tuition. In accepting the prize, each student is committing
to remain in the core program for the full year. Figure Category:
1st Place – Will St. John
2nd Place – Angela Cunningham
Cast Category:
1st Place – Carla Crawford
2nd Place – Emilie Lee This
year’s awards in the figure category were based primarily on a group of
figure works. Will’s figure painting over the last year displays a deep
understanding of the human form and conveys a mood that transcends
academic study while showing a commitment to a classical aesthetic.
Angela’s figure drawings are a meditation on form, expertly supported
by a foundation of solid anatomy. From her figure drawing to figure
sculpture to cast painting, she is developing into the sort of
well-rounded artist rarely seen over the past century. This
year’s awards in the cast category were based on the completion of a
single spectacular piece. Carla displayed constant focus during class
and did some of the best block in and form work seen this year. Emilie
chose one of the most difficult casts and inspired us all with her
patience and perseverance to bring her piece to successful completion.
Santiago, by Will St John, oil on linen, 16"x20", 2008
Ana Nina, by Angela Cunningham, graphite on paper 2008
detail of figure sculpture by Angela Cunningham, 2008
Winged Victory, by Carla Crawford, graphite on paper, 2009
Laocoon by Emilie Lee, graphite on paper, 2009
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Yesterday was so much fun! I spent the morning painting with Rory Jackson, who is one of my oldest friends. We've been painting together since we were 5 years old and I grew up taking art lessons with Rory's mom Anne Cady. My mom Laura Ellis is also an artist and taught us both a lot about drawing and painting. It was a pretty amazing way to grow up. These days I don't get to see Rory that often, because he spends most of his time in Ghana where he started the Trinity Yard School and lives with his wife Rita and their two sons. Some day I am going to visit them over there.
Rory finished this huge painting in one morning and I wish I had taken a good photo of it because it turned out really well. Maybe I can add that later.
Here I am working on my dinky little 6"x8" canvas
view of Lincoln village, oil on canvas, 6x8. Trying to paint and chit-chat with Rory at the same time didn't go so well for me on this one. I might go back up there one of these mornings to finish it.
view of Bristol from New Haven, oil on canvas, 6x8,
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