Erik PurinsApr 29, 2025
Highlights from today’s session with Ro from BAMG.

Sticking with acrylic and charcoal pastel on canvas/canvas board.

Rough because the longest pose is 2 minutes.

The ones that came out best had some color vibrancy from being paint overs (recycling canvases).

Ro had a hat and was wearing a small swimsuit top and workout shorts.

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Erik PurinsOct 29, 2024
#gesturepainting #figuredrawing

Brought lil 5x5 canvases, soft pastels, and acrylic to figure drawing night.

Started with 2 min poses (pastel and water on canvas), moved to 5 mins (pastel and water drawn over with charcoal, and acrylic and charcoal with wiped out highlights), and 10 mins (variety of pastel/charcoal/acrylic) and a couple 20 mins.

Was generally unhappy with the 20 mins but kept one.

#nudity
Jacqueline Gomez Fine ArtistJun 21, 2024

One of my latest new blog post after a long time!.. I'm currently experimenting with improving my painting skills with these short gesture oil paint sketches!.. If you enjoy blog posts like these, subscribe to my 'Deliberate Practice of Art' blog for more!..

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5 and 10 Minute Painted Gestures

Gesture drawing has been a reliable foundational practice to build ones skills rapidly, and for good reason. Quick repetitive practice is well documented to accelerate improvement as one has a chance to learn from and make mistakes quickly.. When done right there is also a deeper connection conveyed in these gestures.. a living essence that is achieved due to the artist ‘feeling’ the pose rather than just seeing it. In these quick paint sketches I attempted to transpose this act of conveying the impulse rather than the position of the ‘pose’ too, as one does in gesture drawings.