I volunteer regularly to babysit exhibitions at Elysium Gallery and it’s a chance to catch up on admin on the laptop like cataloguing photos and writing artist statements. This week it’s Bus Stop Cinema, featuring 13 films from international artists, an eclectic mix of art, drama, animation and parody. It’s fun babysitting in the darkContinue reading “Babysitting the Art at Bus Stop Cinema”
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Going Over To The Dark Side: Experimenting with Acrylic Paint.
Acrylic sketch: Theresa in jeans. I’m not a natural born painter – I like scribbling and printmaking but I’ve recently been going over to the dark side and experimenting with paint, with varying success. Watercolours and Oils are a joy to work with and I’ve had one attempt at using Gouache, which I quite liked.Continue reading “Going Over To The Dark Side: Experimenting with Acrylic Paint.”
Total Artgeek – Soft Pastels: Portrait of an Elder Man
I don’t often do portraits, preferring nudes and cats, but I’ve been trying harder to get a likeness over the past year because it’s good discipline and forces me to be not only very observant but also very accurate, which feeds into my professional development. This is John, a life model I often workContinue reading “Total Artgeek – Soft Pastels: Portrait of an Elder Man”
Mixing It: Print, Drawing, Collage
I was editioning a block print of a head of an elderly man developed from a drawing from my trip to Pakistan a few years ago and had a bit of printers ink left over so I tried printing the block onto odd bits of paper I had around the place. I had aContinue reading “Mixing It: Print, Drawing, Collage”
Rampant Paper-Geekery [parental guidance suggested]
I spent Saturday at Swansea Print Workshop [www.swanseaprintworkshop.org.uk] developing a large piece of artwork which was based on a drawing I did at life drawing group, working with a professional model. I went in again this morning to finish it off. The technique I use is three-colour reduction monotype – for the uninitiated, that’s likeContinue reading “Rampant Paper-Geekery [parental guidance suggested]”
Watercolour Sketches – Real Artgeek Stuff!
I don’t always sketch in pen; now and again I use watercolour. It’s good discipline to break out of my comfort zone and it forces me to observe and record colour. I almost always draw from life and I enjoy doing anatomical studies. I have a borrowed skeleton, called Felicity, in my studio [IContinue reading “Watercolour Sketches – Real Artgeek Stuff!”
All Scribbled Out
I’ve been drawing for most of the day and also went to my regular weekly Thursday evening life-drawing group so I’ve been drawing for around 12 hours and I’m scribbled out, so I’m not going to say much tonight, but I’ll leave you with some sketches. Good night 🙂 Two gentlemen debating at SwanseaContinue reading “All Scribbled Out”
Cats in My Sketchbook
I think that cats are good for drawing practice as they’re surprisingly difficult to draw. I’m so used to using the human body as a subject that cats are a completely alien lifeform when it comes to scribbling; not only do they have different skeletons which work in strange ways, like knees that bendContinue reading “Cats in My Sketchbook”
Prints, Paperclips in Pants and Paul Peter Piech
The past couple of days I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather, like I’m fighting off a bug but today was my volunteer day at Swansea Print Workshop so I dosed up on paracetamol and spent the afternoon printing monotypes. I managed to do eight, basing them on drawings from my sketchbooks, soContinue reading “Prints, Paperclips in Pants and Paul Peter Piech”
A hunky male model and electrocuting fleas.
I fancied doing some life drawing but it wasn’t life drawing group night so I borrowed Melvyn’s childhood Action Man, set up a floodlight and posed the little chap on a stool while I did this ink drawing of him. Best model I ever had – didn’t move a muscle. He’s got really bigContinue reading “A hunky male model and electrocuting fleas.”
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