This is the class I have been taking with Paulette Insall. Here are some of the sketches I have made of eyes, noses, and mouths.



Here is an entire face with hair. My other faces have no hair because I would like to vary the styles as needed.

This was a piece I did a while back from a bust that was in our art classroom. I used a regular graphite pencil to do this piece which was a study of light and dark. It took me a couple of hours to do this freehand and without the use of a grid. I didn't use the "thumb" method either. My art teacher told me I have a really good eye.

I had been away from art for some time so I decided to start taking some art classes. I started out with Drawing & Composition which was a class that used only dry media. For this particular piece, we were supposed to take a color picture and convert it to black and white using black and white charcoal. It took about three weeks to do this project. This was a little outside my box since I prefer doing portraits and figure drawing. We did this drawing using a grid much like the old masters. It started out as a small picture which we were to increase by size.