Andrea Boyer

I adore skilled observational drawing and Italian artist Andrea Boyer (1956- ) is a master.

Born in Milan, she originally specialized and trained in set design. In a long and very successful artistic career she has explored many different media and artistic expressions, including photography, painting, printmaking and drawing.

Sato Naoki

Sato Naoki began to draw familiar vegetation using charcoal in 2013, eventually creating the series and eventually first solo exhibition; “There, it has grown.” . One Hundred and fifty meters of wall space in the Main Gallery of 3331, Tokyo, was filled with continually evolving artwork, including a panorama work spanning 86 meters and new work exceeding 30 meters.

Though the expanses of drawing and observation are fantastic and the variation in foliage and its different rendering incredible. I love the images of people moving through the space, for me their captured movement mirrors our fleeting time here and the patients and resilience of nature.

Serge Zhukov

I am really enjoying figurative drawing this week and continuing with this theme, this is the work of Serge Zhukov. Serge is a Russian artist who graduated from St Petersburg Academy of Art in 1980 he has been living and working in Philadelphia since 1990 and exhibits regularly at FAN gallery.

Steven Assael

Steven Assael is a figurative painter from America, but it is his drawings that I love for their presence and perception. He captures wonderful textures and his rendering of hair is superbe.

Marina Richterova

Russian born Czech artist Marina Richterova's work is dark and folkloric. It brings to mind the medieval fantasy depicted in the works of Bruegel and Bosch but also has the elegance of illuminated texts.  

T Dylan Moore I

T Dylan Moore is an illustrator from Atlanta who produces these beautifully rendered textural drawings. His drawings often work on concepts of humans in nature swaddled, embraced or buried by it.

Margaret Woodward II

Margaret Woodward has often drawn musicians, again with charcoal and pastel they are beautiful drawings of concentration, capturing that time when you loose yourself in music.

Artem Krepkij I

I am teaching life drawing and basic drawing skills at this time of year and so my eye is being tempted by drawings. 

Artem Krepkij's drawings are difficult to view in some ways due to their extreme perspective, twisting and contorting figures into exaggerated forms to emphasize the emotion and drama of situations. His works remind me of those early works of Vincent Van Gogh where the hands are as expressive and animated as the faces and there is a monotone hardship that prevails through all. 

Pavel Curagău

Pavel Curagău is an artist who works mainly in fine art, print and photography Here I am featuring a section of one of his drawings on stretched canvas with charcoal. which has great observation and energy.
"I am concerned human being as a whole and its role in the society. The human being as matter, consciousness and soul."

Lilli Carré II

Lilli Carré's String Drawing illustrations with string embedded in paper like sneezes bursting out of the noses. 

Golucho II

Amazingly arresting drawings by Golucho that catch you and hold you in their gaze. These drawings made me think about the growing invisibility of elderly in our society and culture, because of this vacuum they seem all the more powerful.

Carol Hopper II

Carol Hopper also draws incredible portraits often of those on the fringes of society, from criminal photo shoots to castaways and down and outs Carols work captures photo real faces but with the empathy and soul of hard earned observation and rendering.

KwangHo Shin

KwangHo Shin is a Korean artist who works on an amazing scale, his portraits are often twice his size. These particular ones are rendered in charcoal and conte on canvas beautifully drawn with incredible eyes that pull you into their reality. 

KwangHo Shin's coloured portraits are more destructive and remind me of Francis Bacon's works.

Patricia March

Patricia March's works are concerned with movement and time. He exquisite drawings capture fleeting seconds of expression and minute action. 

"I have always had a huge interest in cinema and photography, I believe this interest comes from the little moments on the big screen, together with my interest in the perception of ‘time.’ That is what has motivated me to investigate the sequence and progression of time through paper. I think sometimes, only by observing flashes of time from a distance can you see the real person. Their expressions or gestures, their way of walking, their look, or simply by seeing them stand quietly, are the often the real insights into somebody’s life. I grab flashes of people’s lives, then invest my time into turning this flash of time into the representation of a life." Patricia March

Bee days are over . . .

Finished drawing. A2 each bee is about 6cm long.

Days are all a buzz II

I have found a large dead bumble bee and have spent the weekend drawing lots of detailed studies of it, such a beautiful thing. This summer I did spend sometime coaxing worn out bees to drink honey and it does have miraculous effects great to take a staggering unresponsive insect and soon see it buzzing of through the air.

Star crossed legs

I found this crane fly with its star crossed legs and wanted to use it for a picture. So before it blows away on the whirl wind of life, I am drawing it. Have a great weekend.

Adara Sanchez Anguiano

I have admired the work of Adara Sanchez Anguiano without knowing that they were hers, as they always appeared uncredited. Now I have found who created these wonderful drawings, I feel compelled to share this Spanish artists work and links, these are from her series 'take your clothes off'

Work work work

I just wanted to share what has been happening to me in the last wee while. I am back at work, for those of you who do not know I teach at an Further Education College, it is a new term with new responsibilities and challenges, and I am just about to add to that, with another exciting new job teaching art online.

One of the early pleasures this year, is teaching a group from a local school figure drawing. I have never taught school pupils before. The students that I have been teaching of this age group previously have been the people that school and education has not worked well for. It has made me much happier about our education system to have such a eager, engaged group of young people who really want to learn.

Above: Mini Me self portraits with school group.

Despite being an ardent exponent of 'imagination', I am a strong believer in a solid foundation of drawing.

 'Mini Me' self portraits with NC Introduction to creative arts.

Due to the variety of students that I teach, I believe that the more creatively you can deliver these skills the easier and faster they will be acquired, and by more of them. So it has been fun, we have just been studying portraiture and self portraiture so far and I am trying to introduce elements of identity and broaden ideas of the self and others.