A New Face

Tonight's drawing session at the Belmar Arts Council was typical enough in most respects, but one difference- a new model working for us. Not a stranger- this is the woman who contacted me at the Studio last month looking for modeling work and who posed for a few of the figures in the current boardwalk block. At her request I had passed her contact info to the guy who runs the BAC figure group at its last meeting, he met with her, and the rest is history. The rest of the group was happy to add another good model to our roster, the model was happy to make some extra money and see all the resulting art, and I ended up with the 30 minute charcoal drawing above. It's not great, but I achieved a little bit of a likeness in the opinion of a few people there, which isn't bad for the first time drawing someone's face.