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.
Working with a new model at last week’s life drawing session, and most of my time was spent analysing and measuring and trying to get things right. She has fantastic hair.
I did a first proof of my new linocut portrait this week. I did as much carving as I thought necessary, following my decision to almost treat the flesh like a geographical feature (see here), and decided to print one to see what I had. I’m not 100% happy with it but I think I’m on the right track and looking forward to continuing to work with this model.
On the left, the lino print, printed onto Liber Charta paper with Cranfield Caligo Safewash ink. On the right, the lino block (natural grey lino backed with hessian).
It’s #Caturday Saturday again and here are some sketchbook scribbles from April 2015, when Sparta Puss was a sprightly 6 year-old.
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