Life Drawing Palo Alto Art Center 12/6/12

Palo Alto Art Center

For the first time in maybe 15 years, I'm without a figure drawing group to facilitate.

First the Stone Griffin Art Gallery in Campbell closed it's doors.

Then the Cloud Castle group was a temporary thing

until Gabriel Coke could get situated in his new studio space in Saratoga at The Yellow Barn.

Decided to try out the Palo Alto Art Center day time sessions.

Discovered these daytime ones are 3 hours of the same pose! 

Not my cup of tea.

I like quick, gestural poses using a haphazard way of dashing the drawings off.

To me, that adds life and emanates the vibrancy of a living force.

One gets caught up in it.

I stuck it out and so here is my overworked result after 2 hours. Couldn't make myself stay that last hour.

LIfe Drawing Cloud Castle 11/15/12

CLOUD CASTLE

owner Gabriel Coke

facilitator Elizabeth Parashis 

This is the last of the ten week sessions.

New sessions start right away I think. 

Check with the Los Gatos Saratoga Community Education & Recreation.

Gabriel will have drop-in sessions such as these
and also instructional sessions for all levels and ages.

He teaches in the classical way for a thorough grounding.

Here are two of his "almost finished" artworks.

Life Drawing Cloud Castle 10/26/12

Cloud Castle Studio

owner: Gabriel Coke

facilitator: Elizabeth Parashis

I couldn't be here this week but Dalene took phone photo's.

Thank you Dalene! 

Gabraiel Coke

Dalene

Life Drawing Cloud Castle 10/19/12

Cloud Castle Studio

owner: Gabariel Coke

facilitator: Elizabeth Parashis

A great session with Ariel as our model

She has a long slim body with wonderful orange/red hair

by Elizabeth Parashis

by Elizabeth Parashis

by Elizabeth Parashis

by Elizabeth Parashis

by Elizabeth Parashis

by Elizabeth Parashis

by Elizabeth Parashis

Life Drawing Cloud Castle 10/12/12

Cloud Castle

Studio of Gabriel Coke

facilitated by Elizabeth Parashis

At LAST a male model

Collin was great and so our drawings were above average : )

Daleen

Her drawings always give a mysterious, in depth, aura.

Didn't get a shot of Gabriel's which was wonderful as always 

Here's mine.

I finally brought out my 2' x 6' butcher paper as I used to 15 years ago while drawing at John Pugh's studio. Facilitated there also with models as wonderful as the ones today. A few have been with me all those years.

Life Drawing Cloud Castle 10/5/12

What a great model!

Jasmine

CLOUD CASTLE STUDIO

Gabriel Coke: owner

by Gabriel Coke

by Dalene

by Elizabeth Parashis

by Elizabeth Parashis

by Elizabeth Parashis

by Elizabeth Parashis

LIfe Drawing Cloud Castle 9/28/12

CLOUD CASTLE

Gabriel Coke

A wonderful session with Mina as our model

This painting isn't Mina, but is a sample of the detail that will be achieved by Gabriel when we finish having Mina sit for us four more 2 hour sessions.

by Gabriel Coke

The last two are by Elizabeth Parashis

Life Drawing Cloud Castle 9/21/2012

Another wonderful model

Kammeron

Was this your's Marian ? Lovely.

Gabriel Coke

He gets it right every time!

Mine. Elizabeth

Horribly overworked due to trying unsuccessfully to get the feet right.

Life Drawing Cloud Castle 9/14/2012

A New Venue in The Saratoga Barn

Gabriel Coke's

CLOUD CASTLE STUDIO

 Model Coordinator

Elizabeth Parashis

A grand opportunity to do something different for me!

My usual style is to draw or paint from quick 30 second - 20 minute poses

but NOW I will be trying my hand at 1 1/2 hour poses

in the studio of a super realist.

A stretch for me.

Come join us for the next 9 weeks at

 20640 3rd St #270

Big Basin Way Saratoga CA 95070

artpages@earthlink.net

Drop ins welcome

$20

Sessions are every Friday 10:00 am - 1:00 pm through Nov. 16, 2012

Here are our efforts

The next 2 are mine

Elizabeth Parashis

The last and best is Gabriel Coke 

who said he was rusty.

I should be so rusty!

Art Pages

For very reasonably priced prints of horses, landscapes or figures click on the link below/

Fine Art America

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/elizabeth-parashis.html

For original mono prints and landscapes, contact the Woodside Gallery in Woodside CA.
Woodside Art Gallery
mneeleygeorge@aol.com

To contact me directly email
Elizabeth Parashis
artpages at earthlink.net

Life Drawing Stone Griffin 3/8/12

OUR LAST ONE AT STONE GRIFFIN!!!!!!!!!!!!! : (

Hopefully we will have a new place soon. 

Don't scatter everyone : O

Here are our last efforts. Some really good stuff. 

We had a great model

Thanks Ariel!

The rest are mine

and below these are Steve Wetlesen's Haiku

 ARIEL CHURCHILL STONE GRIFFIN

FINAL SHOTS

MARCH 8, 2012

THE LAST ROUNDUP

Ariel.

Name of angelic grace.

What is her celestial language?

Trumpet Music 16^th Century

British ancestry.

I think of Henry the Eight

I was there once

at his castle,

splendor beyond

ostentatious,

yet the Great One

never observed

the sights that kissed

my commoner’s eyes.

Ariel Deep Abstracts

Beautiful pretzel

sitting on spacetime eons old,

Late Winter meets Baroque.

Elongated figure,

Soft honey blonde classic curls.

March changes to Spring.

Ariel More Abstractions

Aphrodite Haiku

Greek classic statue.

Springtime waxes eternal.

Her marble is alive.

Mobius Braiding Haiku

Such curls, math is made,

twisting frizz geometry.

Could I pass courses?

Ariel Essence

Ten Minutes

Organic wood flute

music’s gentle notes erupt.

Midsummer in March.

Growing out of oak,

emerging from evergreen.-

Dryad her own seed

Ariel Finale

(Haiku Written in Reverse Order

On Sketch Canvas)

Haiku for My Art

What thoughts form sketches,

find painterly season words?

Poetic Art blooms.

Recline Haiku

Seated Nude princess,

aristocratic without clothes..

Tree blossom Empress.

Unfallen Haiku

Pure shape without robe,

Moral holiness in skin.

Eve in her harden.

Poetic Artists express or point out the beauty and other visual aesthetics they see or imagine with elegant rhythmic language. In so doing, Poetic Artists sketch or paint with pure thought.

© COPYRIGHT 2012 by STEPHEN C. WETLESEN