Just got back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop. Filthy night, really cold, pouring rain and blowing a gale……and today’s the first day of Spring. Joke! Anyway, our model is great to draw, he has a very Renaissance head and excellent muscle and bone definition. I previously used up some offcuts of mount (matte) board and schlepped white acrylic gesso and grey ink wash over them to break the unrelenting surface. This one was a mid grey to start with. I worked onto the board with black and white conte crayons. It’s fairly small, a bit less than A4.
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Great portrait – I find faces really difficult. I did a self portrait quite a few years ago and I used to have it hanging in my bedroom but I eventually took it down because of the mad staring eyes!!
hahaha I almost NEVER do self portraits because I look so angry in them!
Great portrait!
Thank you 🙂
I’m getting confused. Nights are filthy, but women who are filthy are manky?
Oh, and BTW, great news about Boise! Congratulations!
Thanks – I can’t wait to get over there are start scribbling!
Thass ‘ow we talks English down by ‘ere 😉
First day of spring? I don’t think the weather got that memo. 😦
Love the drawing, there is always something so striking when you work over a dark background.
And today is worse. I love working on coloured grounds, I don’t know why I ever worked on white. So boring.
I like this very much… when I was about 16 my best friend had a boyfriend called Clint who looked just like your portrait! I’d not thought of that for years!
A doppleganger 🙂