Busy Busy Busy

So, I've been slacking quite a bit with my blog and my site now that I've started my classes again.
I've been learning a good deal in both my intermediate figure drawing and my intro to painting the figure classes. Mostly of what not to do and my weaknesses, most of all my values. I seem to be leaving out a great deal of transistions in the midtones. This piece is a great example.

On top of my values giving me issues, I continue to struggle with charcoal. I love the quality of charcoal, but I just can't seem to control it like I can pencil. Maybe this is something I should work on. Maybe I try to be too tight in my drawings and should learn to loosen up more? I have been using pencil with vine to mass in my darks and this has actually been pretty interesting. I'm going to experiment with this a bit more. I'll do my best to continue posting on a more regular basis and I'll try and get some more images up here.



4 hour self portrait

So I'm not too sure what I keep doing wrong. It just doesn't look quite right. I know first off the mouth is a little off, but other than that I can't put my finger on it. I do believe that I keep rushing through my drawings. I need to slow down and spend more time on the values and pay more attention to the slight details in the core shadow annd be sure to get my measurments just right before I even start to lay in the values.

New Figure Drawing Class

I'll be starting a new figure drawing class in about a month and a half with the Academy of Art Online. I will say that for the most part the Academy of Art Online has been a great school, but when it comes to figurative classes, drawing from photos that they send is not quite what I'm looking for. I suppose it works for the most part giving you a working knowledge for drawing from life. Along with my studies at the Academy of Art I continue to practice on my own following the atelier method. I've started with some Bargue plates and copying some master works and I'll continue to perfect this as much as possible. I'm providing a couple of bargue plates and a Jacob Collins master copy.

The Beginning of a new blog

So, here I am. Having moved from Italy to Charleston, SC. In doing my research I found that Charleston was probably the best place to come back to after having spent 10 years in Italy. There's plenty of history, great food and let's not forget about all of the art here.

This blog is to work hand-in-hand with my website http://www.cgarveyfineart.com/ so that other artists, gallery owners and the like might be able to leave comments regarding this site or the artists within, so feel free to leave me any comments or suggestions.