Category Archives: life drawing

Life Drawing: No MoJo

My mojo just wasn’t with me last night at life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop. We had a great model that I’ve drawn before and I had lovely paper and graphite, but I just couldn’t get into it. The drawing isn’t too bad, but the likeness isn’t quite there. Sometimes that’s just the way itContinue reading “Life Drawing: No MoJo”

Life Drawing: A Quiet Pose

It’s nice to get a quiet, reflective pose when I’m working with a model. It sort of influences how I do the drawing. I was able to do a lot of measuring with this one, which paid off because it’s fairly accurate. I prepared some recycled printmaking paper with a layer of acrylic paint squeegeedContinue reading “Life Drawing: A Quiet Pose”

Life Drawing: Highlights And Midtones

At Swansea Print Workshop we do a lot of recycling and any prints that people leave behind after teaching sessions, ones they were not happy with, are reused in some way. Some that have a clean side are bagged up and sold on for drawing, sketching and proof prints. I bought a bag to useContinue reading “Life Drawing: Highlights And Midtones”

Life Drawing: Paint And Card

I’m just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop and it’s late. I did a graphite sketch of our model onto paper prepared with an olive green acrylic paint, applied with a squeegee, and then used a piece of stiff card to apply some highlights with white acrylic. About 30 minutes in all. GoodContinue reading “Life Drawing: Paint And Card”

One Model, Four Faces

Trying out some different ways of drawing our lovely life model. I used graphite but went from a fairly academic approach, through some slight abstraction focusing on shapes and patterns to a very stylised linear drawing, which I later used for a linocut.

Back To Life Drawing

I’ve finished my artist residency at Swansea’s Urban HQ and slipped back to normal routine with Life Drawing at Swansea Print Workshop last night, working with this lovely model. I pre-coloured some vintage paper with an olive-y green acrylic screen-printing medium and drew onto it with 4B Graphite. I like the look of it in realContinue reading “Back To Life Drawing”

And…Relax (And Diet!)

My artist residency at Swansea’s Urban HQ ended yesterday and I’m relaxing today, pottering in the garden, enjoying the sunshine and being given the runaround by Sparta Puss and Erik The Tabby Boi; (Bill aka William Chat Noir is just chilling). Tomorrow I’ll start planning what I’m going to do with the work I’ve created – someContinue reading “And…Relax (And Diet!)”

Artist In Residence: Day 16 – And The Final Proof!

It’s the last-but-one day of my artist residency at Swansea’s Urban HQ and I did a first proof of the last block I carved, block number 12. I started out on April 1st with a pile of portrait sketches, done from life, a stack of traditional grey lino blocks and my carving tools. I’m really pleased withContinue reading “Artist In Residence: Day 16 – And The Final Proof!”

Artist In Residence: Day 11 – block 13

On Day 11 of my residency at Swansea’s Urban HQ last week I started cutting my 13th lino block which is larger than most of the ones I’ve cut so far, double the size at 20 x 15cms. Most of it is carved now, but I decided to add some background on the larger ones soContinue reading “Artist In Residence: Day 11 – block 13”