I’m feeling so done with drawing for the time being. Besides the weather has turned summer dreadful (first heat wave of the summer).

So now I’m beginning to do the Bargue book studies from the beginning. These are said to be the easiest and then progress ever more difficult. Oh, my! I’m not so sure.

Ok between doing drawing it from a photo: first upside down, with straight lines and only shadows. It’s not as bad as I feared. Perhaps by the end of a year doing

I’ve never been good at painting figures. So here’s my first shot at using Charles Bargue’s methods. Plumb lines, blocking in then a series of straight lines morphing to curves. After lots

So I started doing more from the beginning of the book.

I was challenged by on of my co-artists. That’s all it took to get me back to searching and learning. She suggested that my paintings may be improved by looking into some