The life models who pose at Swansea Print Workshop are experienced, patient and also physically and mentally fit – you have to be in order to keep still for anything up to an hour. I’ve done it a few times myself and it’s really hard going. Our model this week held this pose on her knees for a full thirty minutes. She’s terrific. I used willow charcoal onto vintage paper – it’s not watermarked so I don’t know the maker. It’s very smooth and the charcoal smudged and skidded across the top of the paper rather than being held by a textured surface. It took a bit of getting used to but I worked with the smudginess in the end. I love the foreshortening on this pose, the large looming feet.
A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks
I have some small screenprints for sale, inspired by my drawings of the taxidermy collection at Swansea Museum. I have given these antique artifacts a modern twist by combining them with images of rubbish – old fruit nets, bubble wrap and plastic – highlighting the problem of human pollution and how it affects wildlife.
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uy my work on the Swansea Print Workshop site please click the image to the left and to see the complete image.
In this one, I combined snippets of a bird and discarded plastic with the image of a bug, part of the Museum’s fascinating vintage collection.
20 percent of the cost of each screenprint sold goes to support Swansea Print Workshop, which receives no public funding.
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FINE JOB, ROSIE S. NOT ONLY THAT, BUT ONE FINE IMAGE & CAPTURE TOO. THANX, gray
Thank you 🙂
I have a friend who’s a life model and I know from listening to her, how difficult it is. I am a terrible fidget so would be hopeless.
This is a lovely image Rose
Thanks Helen. I found when I’ve done it that my nose starts to itch badly about 30 seconds after the pose starts!!!!!
hahaha ! Of course !