"A Few of My Recent Drawings" - mostly loose expressive ink drawings and a couple of charcoals

Always loving to draw the figure, I look for every opportunity to draw from life.  I'll bet I have thousands of drawings - well, maybe fewer now since I have only so much space and have been photographing them and then discarding.

All but two of these pieces are drawn from the live model. Most of the ink drawings are two-minute poses in which I held my Line Maker pen or my Noodler fountain pen far from the nib so that I had very little control. I also didn't spend much time looking at the surface as I was drawing - more interesting that way! 😀 The results are often pretty amusing, but much fun to do.  If you like to draw, it's worth a try!   Thanks for visiting Hackberry Street Studio!

Nudes Over Nudes - original mixed media drawings of nudes

As I was taking the photo for this post, I laid the oil pastel drawing on top of the ink drawing and realized - hey I like this! - and since I'm always looking for a way to have my line drawings along with paintings, I think I've found it!  One of life's little happy accidents.  The bottom drawing is brown Sharpie ultra fine on 9 x 12" watercolor paper and the top is oil pastel on 8 x 6" mixed media paper.  Can't wait to combine this technique on one canvas.  Do y'all love making discoveries in your art unintentionally like this?  I'll bet it's a pretty usual art experience for artists.  Thanks for looking!