This was the long pose at last night’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. It gave me time to really analyse what I was seeing. I found the pose difficult, it’s easier to draw in profile or semi-profile: these straight-on poses bring all sorts of problems. But it’s really good practice. I caught his pensive expression but is it a good likeness? It’s nearly there but there’s something not quite right and I haven’t sussed it out yet.
Just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop and it’s late, so I’ll just post the first sketch I did, a 10-minute one in graphite. And now to bed with a cup of tea and a couple of cats. See you tomorrow. Nos da.
This is a longer pose from the recent life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop, around 30 minutes. This model is definitely giving off boy-band vibes. I used graphite onto a heavyweight vintage paper (not watermarked).
I’ll be running a weekend course based on Dewi Bowen and Olwyn Pritchard’s book, “Hunting The Wild Megalith” on February 28th and March 1st at Swansea Print Workshop. Please click here to find out more.
Here’s another small block of grey lino that I’m turning into a portrait. The original sketch was done during a life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop and I’ve traced and reversed it onto the block and started cutting. I’m using traditional lino with Flexcut carving tools and the Flexcut Slipstrop system to keep the tools sharp.
The model I worked with at last week’s life drawing session is a young man with the look of a 1980’s band about him. A few of the artists reckon he looks like he could be from the Norwegian band A-ha. I guess he could be. What do you think?
I’ll be running a weekend course based on Dewi Bowen and Olwyn Pritchard’s book, “Hunting The Wild Megalith” on February 28th and March 1st at Swansea Print Workshop. Please click here to find out more.
This is a slightly longer, 15 minute pose at last week’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. I had a great view of his profile and I concentrated on the quality of the lines I was making. I really like this, I think it’s very sensitive and I might develop this in some way. I used a graphite block onto a piece of Zercoll 145gsm paper.
I’ll be running a weekend course based on Dewi Bowen and Olwyn Pritchard’s book, “Hunting The Wild Megalith” on February 28th and March 1st at Swansea Print Workshop. Please click here to find out more.
Here’s another cat sketch from April 2015. It’s Sparta Puss, using a Faber Castell Pitt drawing pen into a small A6 bound sketchbook, taking it across the two pages. It’s one of my favourite sketches of her, it’s lively and dynamic.
I’ll be running a weekend course based on Dewi Bowen and Olwyn Pritchard’s book, “Hunting The Wild Megalith” on February 28th and March 1st at Swansea Print Workshop. Please click here to find out more.
Last night was my 11th life drawing session since I started back at Swansea Print Workshop after a long break (see here), I’m aiming to improve my portrait drawing over the next year. I was a bit late so I missed the first 2 short poses and went straight into a 10 minute pose. I used a graphite block onto a sheet of cheap but good quality cartridge paper.
I carved a few small vinyl blocks today, based on my field drawings a few years back when I travelled around South Wales with pre-historian Dewi Bowen and film-maker Melvyn Williams. Dewi was researching his book, “Hunting the Wild Megalith“. I used cornflour sprinkled onto the blocks today, to get an idea of the carving before I do some proof prints.
I’ll be running a weekend course based on “Hunting The Wild Megalith” on February 28th and March 1st at Swansea Print Workshop. Please click here to find out more.
This is one of the longer poses I drew at a recent life drawing session. I really like the angular approach I took, it helped me to analyse the face of a model I hadn’t worked with before. I think this one shows a lot of promise to take forward as a linocut.
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