The following two studies in charcoal were done on a Saturday morning recently. These are excellent examples of how a sketching session with model, while producing quickly done studies, can provide a fresh injection of ideas into larger, more deliberate studio paintings. The poses, with head tilts, folding legs or feet and turnings of torso can be used in a larger, more ambitious work. The attitude of the figure can suggest new narrative or work its way into an existing narrative in progress in the studio.
As for these, it is still gelling for me, but the first study is very likely to reappear soon in a painting.

Seated Figure on Bench, 2010

Seated Nude on Ground, 2010

Following the current line of sketches, these last pages in my current sketchbook (In a rare concurrence, the sketchbook ran out of pages as the year 2007 ran out of days) are devoted to the two figures individually. The couple are doing a kind of orbit in my head. They turn in various configurations, and I see in them a constellation in motion. This will become fixed on the canvas later, but it is a challenge to find the greatest expression of this couple on the rocks with the sea lapping at them.

Below is the upper half of the male figure, looking down this time.

"Male Torso", graphite, 2007.

Below is the male figure leaning back on the rocks.

"Figure Leaning Back", graphite, 2007.

Below is the female figure, in partial torso view, leaning into the other.

"Female Torso", graphite, 2007.