Pencil Sketches of Children

One of my favorite subjects is Children. I have to draw from photos because kids usually stay in one place for a nanosecond and I'm not that fast! These are all family photos. Thea took the ones of the little Japanese girls, which I drew while watching the tragic and surreal events all day on 9-11-01.

The sketch of the girl standing in water is called "Getting Her Feet Wet." It's the preliminary study I did for the painting "Little Wader," which was posted earlier.

The little boy and girl are sketches of my grandchildren, Grant and Claire.

Sketches at a workshop

I attended a wonderful portrait workshop run by Paul Davis in April 2008. Here are some sketches in oil and charcoal, drawn "from life" as opposed to drawn from photo references.

"Watch This!"
pastel, 18"x24" on paper
9/17/2010

So here I am holding my "Quick Draw" sketch done at Thanksgiving Point today. It's of children playing at the base of a fantastic interactive water feature. The drawing was done in 1.5 hours, which wasn't nearly enough time. Roger sat with me and we had a wonderful time and lots of good laughs watching the kids getting soaked and squealing with delight. One boy yelled "Watch this!" and that became the title of the piece.