Lullaby Pose, Charcoal (2023)Charcoal drawing
by Darren Jekel

This drawing is a study and practice for an oil painting. I want my drawings to be as energetic and adventurous as my paintings and to influence and inform each other. Charcoal becomes painterly when it gets wetted with a brush, or smeared with a finger on a drawing, and I have developed a practice of drawing with soft willow vine charcoal directly on top of my oil painting canvases. I attempt to draw landscapes like van Gogh, and figures like Raphael. I studiously copy them mark-by-mark frequently for practice. I take the advice of my teacher Wayne Thiebaud who once told me, “learn from the masters".

Materials used:

charcoal on paper

Details:

• Charcoal drawing on Paper
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 45.72 x 60.96 x 0.25cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Nudes and erotic

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