If you've been drawing long enough some of your sketchbooks get misplaced. Not lost, exactly, just not in the same place as the other sketchbooks in the studio. That's what happened to a sketchbook that had somehow been left behind in a backpack. The works in the sketchbook are nearly all graphite, many with chalk highlighting.
The main surprise for me, besides having forgotten several of the drawings, was how varied the subjects were. That is, there were still life, faces, animals and other subjects. Here are a few, all done on tan paper.
This one is from a reference photo of mine. This fellow visited the woods behind my studio one early winter day.
This rose was one of the very last in my garden that year. for some reason it hung on until the last moment. This is from a reference shot.
Many folks have a hard time rendering shiny metal and I'm no exception. This is a study of a tarnished silver cup. The shine and the range of values in the metal reflections were the main interest.
I often draw figures to keep my eyes sharp and careful. This is a study of a truly monumental marble statue of Venus. When the figure is posed with hands over the pubic region these are termd "Venus pudica:. That is, "modest Venus".
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