Figurative | Susan Helen Strok

• CeliaFigureDrawing

  Pastel, Paper, 25 x 19. Had so much fun drawing the model along with Robert Liberace at his Worldwide Drawing the Figure Online 3 hour Event sponsored by the Portrait Society of America on August 27, 2020. This drawing…

• Adoration

  Pastel, Paper, 19 x 24. Drawing from live model reclining. Added the swan at home studio, plus the ribbon around the swan's neck being held by woman. Comment on an uneven relationship.

• Wild Card

  Oil, Cradled Board, 30 x 24 x 1.75. Wearing an old pocket watch around her neck, with an orange screen as a backdrop, one of my favorite models posed holding a single playing card. She has an attitude. What was she thin…

• Kyoto Wedding

  Oil, Canvas, 30 x 24 x 1.5. I was visiting a Temple in Kyoto, Japan several years ago where I was lucky enough to get a photograph of a ceremonial Shinto wedding procession at the Temple. Very beautiful! It was a very d…

• Seated Ballerina

  Colored Pencil, Paper, 26 x 17. Live model figure drawing of a young ballerina wearing her dance outfit. 3 hour session with the Longmont Figure Drawing Group.

• Red Rock Madonna

  Oil, Canvas, 36 x 24 x 2. This work was inspired by a rock formation I found in one of the national parks in Utah. Inside a cleft in a red rock wall, there was a formation that looked like a female figure. It was a powe…

• A Different Dream

  Oil, Panel, 16 x 20 x 1. Wrapped in a blue shawl, a woman sits by the sea, gazing out at the water. She is wearing a dress of pearls and scales - or is she actually a mermaid, sitting momentarily on land, dreaming of th…

• Call of the Sea

  Oil, Canvas, 40 x 30 x 2. A young girl sits in a chair by the sea, listening to the call of the surf inside a shell. It is for the viewer to decide whether it is a young mermaid sitting on the beach pretending to be a r…

• Camouflage

  Pastel, Paper, 25 x 19. I began this piece from a live model drawing. The model was posed on an animal print blanket, holding the parasol. She was unclothed so that I could see her form and decide where to draw the anim…

• Midnight Seer

  Colored Pencil and Ink, Panel, 24 x 18. Seated on a mysterious shape rising from the water on a dark, starry night, a woman with a full body mermaid tattoo stares into the distance. Sprouting from her back is a wing tha…

• Kindred Spirits

  Acrylic, colored pencil, ink, Panel, 16 x 19. Executed in a mix of Acrylic, colored pencil, and ink, this piece conceptually symbolizes the strength and magic of female bonds, linked through shared interests and sisterh…

• Opening

  Pencil, Paper, 20 x 26. Live model figure drawing on sand Canson Mi-Teinte Paper. I often bring a drawing from a figure drawing session home and decide to take it a bit further, with a concept. Model had short hair, but…

• Summer Parasol

  Pencil, Paper, 22 x 18. Drawn from live model posed outdoors on a sunny day, using a parasol for shade.

• Ribbon of Gold

  Acrylic, Canvas, 24 x 30 x 2. An observation is being made that the balance of devotion in a relationship between a couple is very often uneven. The setting of deepest night was chosen to depict the sense of intimacy th…

• Sojourner

  Pastel, Paper, 21 x 19. Beautiful young woman modeled for the Longmont Figure Drawing Group. I love live model figure drawing sessions!