Figures from Life

Experience in drawing the live model is essential for serious artists.
These male and female figure drawings were done in charcoal, conte crayon, or ink on paper; the painting is in oil on canvas.

Female figure drawing in ink
Graceful Woman, Standing with Chair, 1998. Ink on paper, 18" x 24".
Print (18" x 24") available in my Etsy shop: $25.
Giclée prints & greeting cards available in my print shop.
Female figure drawing in conte crayon.
Seated Woman, Leaning Arm on Stool, 1998. Charcoal on paper, 20" x 26". $145.
Available in my Etsy shop
male figure drawing in charcoal
Seated Black Man with Easel, 1998. Charcoal on paper, 20" x 26". $145.
Available in my Etsy shop
male figure drawing in conte crayon on orange paper
Man on Orange, 1995. Charcoal on paper, 12 1/2" x 19". $145.
Available in my Etsy shop
male figurative oil painting in orange and yellow tones
Man Reclining on Sofa, 1996. Oil on canvas, 9" x 12". $195.
Available in my Etsy shop
male figure drawing in charcoal
Man Reclining on Back (with Ab Muscles), 1995. Charcoal on newsprint, 18" x 24". $145.
Available in my Etsy shop
female figure drawing in white conte crayon on black paper
Woman on Black (Front View), 1988. Conte crayon on paper, 12" x 16". $145.
Available in my Etsy shop
male figure drawing in white charcoal on black paper
Man Reclining on Sofa (on Black), 1995. Charcoal on paper, 9 1/2" x 12 1/2". $45.
Available in my Etsy shop
male figure drawing in white charcoal on black paper
Standing Man on Black, 1995. Charcoal on paper, 9 1/2" x 12 1/2". $65.
Available in my Etsy shop
female figure drawing in ink
Seated Woman (Front), 1988. Ink on paper, 18" x 24". $145.
Available in my Etsy shop
female figure drawing in charcoal
Woman (Draped), 1988. Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24". $125.
Available in my Etsy shop
male figure drawing in charcoal
Male Torso, 1988. Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24".
Greeting cards available in my print shop.
male figure drawing in charcoal
Seated Man Looking Away, 1992. Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24". $145.
Available in my Etsy shop
male figure drawing in charcoal
Man on Stool, Arms Back, 1997. Charcoal on newsprint, 18" x 24". $75.
Available in my Etsy shop
female figure drawing in charcoal
Woman Standing, 1988. Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24". $75.
Available in my Etsy shop
female figure drawing in charcoal
Woman Reclining (Back), 1988. Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24". $125.
Available in my Etsy shop
female figure drawing in charcoal
Woman Reclining (Front), 1988. Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24". $125.
Available in my Etsy shop
female figure drawing in charcoal
Woman Lying on Stomach, 1988. Charcoal on paper, 18" x 24". $145.
Available in my Etsy shop



"And who is so barbarous as not to understand that the foot of a man is nobler than his shoe, and his skin nobler than that of the sheep with which he is clothed, and not to be able to estimate the worth and degree of each thing accordingly?"

--Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)



"The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it."

--John Ruskin (1819-1900)



"Art rises above and beyond the issues of the day. It reunites what has been rent asunder, not along national or religious lines, but along individual, human ones. It heals, redefines goals, and strengthens the resolve to move on, to rebuild, to reconstruct. However obtuse human behavior is in other arenas, art, if not suborned, can clarify, put into perspective and re-inspire."

--Lorin Maazel



"Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind."

--Francois De La Rochefoucauld



"An art work has value as a creation because man is made in the image of God, and therefore man not only can love and think and feel emotion, but also has the capacity to create. Being in the image of the Creator, we are called upon to have creativity. In fact, it is part of the image of God to be creative, or to have creativity."

--F. A. Schaeffer



"If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally. I have had heart-cutting experience that opinions are a poor cement between human souls; and the only effect I ardently long to produce by my writings, is that those who read them should be better able to imagine and to feel the pains and the joys of those who differ from themselves in everything but the broad fact of being struggling erring human creatures."

--George Eliot, in a letter of 1859



O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
Angels are painted fair, to look like you:
There's in you all that we believe of heaven,--
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth,
Eternal joy, and everlasting love.

--Thomas Otway, Venice Preserved, Act i. Sc. 1.