A brief intermission to share a splash of colour from last week's lunch – ahi tuna salad at Joey's...

Some action poses:

Another pose with limited line work:

With these sketches I was practicing describing posture and gesture with an efficiency of line:

Another attempt at sketching facial expression:

I've been working on studying body position, gesture and facial expression to improve my figure drawing. This is the first sketch of the series:

I have no work to post today due to getting whalloped by a rhinovirus this weekend, but I'm working on some figurative gestural drawings to post this week. Until tomorrow...

A red winged black bird:

This painting was a double-page spread done in my small watercolour moleskine. The image
is of some outdoor firepits in a park in Edinburgh:

A fancy bird in the grass: