ERNESTO THE GREAT

It's rare for me to get a chance to draw a great male model. Ernesto looks like he stepped out of a Tintoretto painting.
Two very different drawings:

Rainier Cherries

Here is a small - 8" x 10" oil I did of some cherries. I find it quite hard to be confined by the small sized canvas.

Before I can properly paint the three dimensionality of the stems, I need time for the slow drying reds to harden enough for them to be painted on.

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Ellen

RIPENING PEARS-- finished

done!

JUST ABOUT FINISHED!

Yesterday I worked mostly on the lower right quadrent. I'

A FEW QUICK SKETCHES I've been going to the MFA- Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston- on Wednesdays for Drawing in the Galleries, an open modeling session

Most of these are 5 to 15 minute poses.