Hand Study

I needed to have something to show for the upcoming Rome Art Coterie Art Exhibit at the RACA Gallery in Rome, GA, so this weekend I finished a hand study in pastel. Didn't realize how hard it was to draw a hand, since I had been focusing recently on mug shots. Anyway, what do you think? Note: Copyright 2009 C. Gregory Price --all images this blog copyright C. Gregory Price

RECENT WORK

A friend of mine, Ann has these two adorable grandkids. Here is my effort to do graphite portrait sketches of them. I did these on gessoed canvas panels. When I finish they are somewhat light in contrast, stark in sharpness and fragile, i.e. graphite smears. However, when sprayed with Prismacolor Final Fixative the sharpness develops a softer and darker more pleasing tone and the work is thus also somewhat protected from the elements.