Here’s the life drawing from last week’s session – a one hour pose. It took me a while to get into it – it’s late and after a day’s work so I’m usually really tired by then. But sometimes the tiredness frees me up a bit. I love the lush colours of my Daler RowneyContinue reading “Lush Colours”
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I Was Ruthless
This was a 25 minute pose at last week’s life drawing session, but the first one I tried (below) just wasn’t grabbing me, so I started again. Sometimes when something isn’t working out, I keep at it and try and work it through, but this time, it really wasn’t getting anywhere. So I was ruthless.Continue reading “I Was Ruthless”
The Short Poses
We start our Thursday night life drawing classes with short poses to warm up. I enjoy these because they force you to concentrate on the essence of what’s there, rather than getting distracted by details. I used black and sanguine conte crayons onto some vintage paper, size A3, half the size of the pieces I’veContinue reading “The Short Poses”
Another Week, Another Life Drawing
Just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop, this is a 25 minute pose drawn with a sanguine conte crayon. Off to bed now …. 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 givenContinue reading “Another Week, Another Life Drawing”
Drawing On Rubbish
I tried something different for the final, one hour, pose at life drawing last week. I had these four pieces of paper that had been coated with yellow printing ink. I’d fished them out of a bin and they’d been knocking around for ages. So I loosely taped them to my drawing board and drewContinue reading “Drawing On Rubbish”
Like Marmite ….
These reclining poses are like Marmite in our Thursday night life drawing sessions at Swansea Print Workshop. People love ’em or hate ’em. Personally I can’t get enough of ’em, I love the foreshortening, I’m a glutton for punishment. I used Daler Rowney artist’s soft pastels for this 30 minute drawing, onto a heavy vintageContinue reading “Like Marmite ….”
Solidity
Here’s one of the thirty minute poses from Thursday evening’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. I worked with black conte crayon, which is a fairly hard, oily pastel, onto some vintage paper, about A2 size. The model was standing very solidly, almost sculptural, and I wanted to capture that. A Chance To OwnContinue reading “Solidity”
Just Back …..
Just back from Swansea Print Workshop life drawing group and these are the first two poses of the evening, both 5 minutes to get us into the swing of it. I blurred some of the drawing because Facebook has been getting a bit twitchy lately and I don’t want to get a ban! It’s annoyingContinue reading “Just Back …..”
Keeping Inside The Edges
Here’s the final pose I drew at life drawing last week, it’s the full one-hour after the break. I tried very hard to keep the figure within the edges of the paper, I often go over the edge but I was disciplined with this one. I used sanguine conte crayon onto vintage paper. A ChanceContinue reading “Keeping Inside The Edges”
The Hands!!!
This is the 30 minute pose from last week’s life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop. Because of Covid19 restrictions, we have designated spaces in the drawing studio so we stick to one spot, no moving around to get different vantage points. I was stationed to one side of our model but I didn’t mind thoughContinue reading “The Hands!!!”
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