Sanitzed Figures

I've been hosting open figure drawing sessions with model Joshua at the University of Memphis for the past two weeks, and I'm doing it for the next two weeks too. I mostly look at figure drawing as a form of practice--I've never really made this type of drawing central to my work, but I think it's really challenging and it helps me practice some skills (like patience) that I don't practice when I'm kicking ideas around in my sketchbook.

I've decided to revisit some of my figure drawings with a few of my sketchbook tools to see what happens. Right now I'm using watercolor pigments and hand sanitizer and getting some really crazy results:

I like the idea of approaching figure drawing with sanitizing alcohol as a medium. Not only does the sanitizer do some crazy things with the way the color can be layered, but it has a metaphorical resonance.

Now, if I could learn to make music by coughing into my elbow . . .