Tom Ruple

Giampaolo at Angel
oil on canvas
Finished up my academic studies with this fun figure! His small Florentine lily tattoo felt like the perfect final touch to this chapter of my art practice :)

I am really impressed with myself that I am now able to see what all is wrong with this cast. It’s far from perfect in my opinion. But you gotta call it at some point. And the main thing is that I’ve trained and learned!

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Arianna in charcoal! My last charcoal drawing with and lookin forward to playing around with the medium in my own time. Happy with how this turned out even though I accident,y cut a hole right through the face. I was able to fix it at least, so I didn’t waste the 72 hours worth of model time.

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Fun Santa painting to keep up the work during the holiday break! Fun working with such chromatic colors and loose brush strokes! Shout out to my buddy for the killer references and for bringing so much holiday joy! 🎄🌟🎁

Finished up these small studies that are working towards a larger project! Shout out my fella and .h_art for both sitting for these references. Stoked to get them on a bigger canvas and keep working on refining the little details. 😈 😇

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Grisaille painting of a plaster casted skull on a rough wooden ledge. I also had a fun time restoring this old frame for this painting!

“Arianna”
Wrapped up my first year at Angel with this charcoal full figure on Roma paper. :) This was a three week pose with a wonderful model and I’m so happy with the results!

Excited to have wrapped up with my charcoal cast exercises this term! Finally on to painting :) here are a couple photos of my ear cast and my Lincoln mask cast.

I remember back in Brevard, after class, I’d go to a drawing group in town and I’d practice my figure drawing along side some seriously skilled folks. One evening was looking at my drawing for the evening and suggested that if I ever could I should study at an atelier to refine some of my skills in likeness. I think about that moment a lot now that I’m finally at such a program! I’m lucky to have met so many inspiring people along the way here. Im glad I took her advice and gained these skills! I’m glad I’m learning what it takes to make such incredible drawings like what I saw in that group years ago.

Finished off this last term testing out carbon pencils and playing around with the value that they can produce as opposed to graphite. Big fan of the warmer tones and deeper shades but the carbon breaking as I was sharpening damn near radicalized me.

3/3 Bargue copies are done and stored safe and sound under my couch.