Purple african violets and more purple

A few focus experiments with my new DSLR camera... I like the focus/unfocused game within the image.

Flowers from Côte-des-Neiges cementery, Montreal

My gigantic African Violent with a ceramic sculpture done last year.
I love the discordance in proportions!

Another african violet - practicing silhouette and focus against the outside sunny day.

back side & resting pose

In October I registered to a live model class at Centre Communautarie de Loisir de la Côte-des-Neiges. The price was great and it meant I would have teacher's feedback and other drawing lovers around! Here's two of the best drawings that have come out so far. Both drawings are done on Kraft paper and with Conté sketching crayons, although some of the darker blacks were reinforced with compressed charcoal. Both poses lasted 30 minutes.

 

lying down

This drawing was made when I first picked up drawing in september. I went to this amazing drawing class at UQAM (Atelier Libre de Modèle Vivant, sundays 11-14h) and had this pose for 30 minutes. It was the second pose with a very dramatic angle. The first pose caught me off guard and  my drawing came out really "off". So this time I really took my time to "see" and carefully observe what really was presented to my eyes - not to my mind. I'm pretty proud of the result. I used charcoal, sanguine and white conté sketching crayon.