Intimate Expressions

For 15 years David Shelton has attended the Gay Men’s Figure Drawing Group, conducted by artist Tyler Alpern at his log cabin home above Boulder. Artists meet once or twice a month and draw figures from life. Dave concentrates on doing portraits. The initial drawings are done in Conte crayon on large sketch paper from twenty-minute poses. The favorites are transferred to canvas and painted in oils. Intimate Expressions comprises thirteen of these paintings and eleven of the original drawings.