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The Finishing Touch: 2

I’ve had this fake Cezanne on my easel for nearly a fortnight now. It was almost finished but it took me a while to get around to doing the final touches as I wasn’t quite sure what still needed to be done and when to call a halt. It helped to have a break, withoutContinue reading “The Finishing Touch: 2”

The Finishing Touch: 1

I’ve had this fake Monet on my easel for over a week now. It was nearly finished but I couldn’t get around to doing the final touches until today. I wasn’t quite sure what still needed to be done – it’s easy to keep on and on working on something, especially a painting or drawing,Continue reading “The Finishing Touch: 1”

The Last Pose Step By Step

Here’s the final pose I did at this week’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. It was about 50 minutes long and I was able to get into quite a bit of detail. I started with some squiggles in white conté crayon onto black paper, to map out the basic figure. Then I putContinue reading “The Last Pose Step By Step”

I Like A Recliner

I love to draw a reclining pose at life drawing. It’s my favourite – I’m a glutton for awkward foreshortening. It’s a nice one for the model too, they can relax a bit after the series of short poses – this is a 60 minute pose. I used three conté crayons in white, sanguine andContinue reading “I Like A Recliner”

Quick Ones

We always start the life drawing sessions at Swansea Print Workshop with some short warm-up poses, because of the speed they’re very free and force you to get down what is essential in the figure rather than focusing on detail. It’s also chance to play around with mark making – scribbly lines and veryContinue reading “Quick Ones”

Double Faking

I spent some time faking today, doing more work on the fake Monet I started on Friday and the fake Cezanne from the previous Friday. I’m a bit behind, never mind. I’m following the Cheese and Wine painting Club on Facebook, painting a weekly fake as one of my lockdown challenges, to improve my paintingContinue reading “Double Faking”

Building The Drawing

Here’s one of the 30 minute drawings I did the other evening at Swansea Print Workshop. I photographed it as I went along, showing how it developed. I used black, white and sanguine conté crayons onto black paper. Here are some close ups of sections of the drawing. We have some brilliant models to workContinue reading “Building The Drawing”

Faking Friday and Pizza Pie

The weeks fly by! It’s Faking Friday with the Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook again. This is my 19th fake, but the club has been running longer, started by the artist Ed Sumner to give people something to do during lockdown. Ed asks for contributions from those that can afford to chip somethingContinue reading “Faking Friday and Pizza Pie”

Let’s See Where It Takes Me …..

I’m a bit old school when it comes to sketchbooks, I take the term literally and I sketch in them. But one of my lockdown challenges is to try working differently, to get out of my comfort zone, so I’ve been rethinking how to use a sketchbook. I had a few A3 brown paper sketchbooksContinue reading “Let’s See Where It Takes Me …..”

The Underlying Barbie-ness

I started this fake Cézanne last Friday at the lunchtime Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. It’s my 17th fake – one of the lockdown challenges I set myself was to improve my painting skills and I love studying the work of other artists. I began with a pink background, which was a bitContinue reading “The Underlying Barbie-ness”