Nudes with Values

[Scott Bartner]

Originally Posted by Sharon Knettell

PS. Lets see some more!

I think your drawings are extremely well done and would love to see more as well.

There is something really intriguing about the standing nude and I can't quite put my finger on it. It has a turn-of-the-century quality about it, but also something surreal, Duchamp-esque. Perhaps it's that stand she's holding. I think it's brilliant.

[Ilaria Rosselli Del Turco]

Steven, I always read your posts with great interest, and these drawings are just a confirmation of your insight in representational art.
Scott is right, there is something very special to them. They remind me of William Bailey nude works.
Many thanks for posting them
Ilaria

[Enzie Shahmiri]

Steven, these drawings remind me of the Charles Bargue Drawing Course. Such a classical rendering, just beautiful! I had seen your cast drawings, which were incredible as well. With such drawing skills, you must have tried your hand at painting as well. Please post some of your paintings, I would love to see how you made the transition and in which style you continued to work.

[Steven Sweeney]

Originally Posted by Enzie Shahmiri

[Y]ou must have tried your hand at painting as well. Please post some of your paintings, I would love to see how you made the transition and in which style you continued to work.

Yes, I did make the transition -- I should be ashamed to admit that I hardly draw at all anymore beyond initial sketches for paintings -- but owing in part to the domestic circus I call my life, I do not presently have access to the paintings from the life classes. I hope to get hold of them sometime this summer, between the dog-and-pony and high-wire acts, and get some digital images captured.

[Steven Sweeney]

P.S. I have in fact posted paintings around the Forum, usually for purposes of illustration, but even I have lost track of where they are.

Some newer members might not know that we actually have a Cafe thread in which still lifes and landscapes can be displayed. I did recall hanging one there.

[Chris Saper]

Steven,

These are sensitive and lovely - beautiful work. You have a delicate hand. (or a really good mahl stick )

[Patricia Joyce]

Steven,
I swear I have been everywhere in this forum over the past four years or so, and have only seen ONE of your drawings of the cast of a head. Finally, you have stepped into the light. And I am not at all suprised by the beauty of these drawings. It was worth the wait!

Let me join the chorus here, more please! Thank god these survived the fire.

[Debra Norton]

Steven, great to see your work! The charcoal of the woman is beautiful! Very well done.

I wasn't surprised to see the pencil of the man, (is it proper to use his name?), we're using him right now for our long pose, plus another student and I are sharing him as a portrait model. He's told us a few "Bougie" stories......

[Steven Sweeney]

Yes, "the man." He keeps up a running commentary on how he's going to quit modeling, but year after year, he shows up in drawings and paintings, at this student show or gallery or that State Fair art show. I think he likes the hours -- not really an 8-to-5 kind of fellow. The first time I saw a painting of him with some clothes on, I was a bit disoriented. Perhaps that's because all he was wearing was a black leather vest and mini-skirt and fishnet stockings, with a cowboy hat and saddle as props, in a piece called, as I remember, "The New West." (This preceded "Brokeback" by years.) The founders of the Atelier were reportedly not amused.

Some of Daniel Greene's studio models have the same ubiquity. Not only do I see them in various published images by assorted artists, but Greene himself uses them as "extras" in his populated works (such as the auction house scenes).

I'm sure there are a few Bougie Studio stories to tell. (I've got the good dirt on a couple of folks, which I'm holding in reserve, pending my tell-all memoirs.) We were a small-studio microcosm of nearly every "artiste" stereotype and neurosis. In the balance of all things, I've heard more than a few Atelier Lack stories . . .

(But none about you, Debra. Yet.)

[Allan Rahbek]

Hi Steven,
I wanted to reply to this wonderful drawing for some time now, but have been stressing with something else as you might well know.

Everybody should go through the process of doing such a solid work. It might seem like a lot of work, sort of like going to America; it is only a matter of getting the boat into the water and begin to row......but it can