Went to life drawing tonight and had a hard time for the first couple of hours but turned up trumps on the last pose. I really like the drawing I did – I was so fed up I stopped caring and it seemed to work. Because of where I was sitting there was aContinue reading “Taking Liberties”
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I’ve Got Wood…
…..and I know how to use it :). I’ve got a stack of plywood offcuts hanging around the studio so I thought I’d do some woodcuts from my sketches. I’ve decided to work on male nudes for the foreseeable future and I’ve just completed a series of three very large manier noir drawings, including oneContinue reading “I’ve Got Wood…”
An Oldie
Feeling bleeuurrgghhh. Got a bit of a lurgi. I did a long teaching stint down at Print Workshop today then went to work at my studio, then grabbed some chips with Husb before going to an event at the Print Workshop then walked home feeling dog rough. So I’ve been wrapped in a blankie inContinue reading “An Oldie”
Another Man. Another Day.
I’ve been working on some very large manier noir drawings, based on life drawings from my sketchbooks, The drawings are on paper about 120cms high, Fabriano Accademica, coated with acrylic gesso and rubbed all over with compressed charcoal. I thought I’d do a series of male nudes – there are loads in my sketchbooksContinue reading “Another Man. Another Day.”
Aaarrgghhh! Hands!
Life drawing tonight – really lovely pose except for the hands! I tried to draw them twice and they ended up looking like one good hand with a couple of sausages attached. Floppy sausages. With nails. aaaaarrrggghhhh! So frustrating. The other pose was nice too – some severe foreshortening – love it. I usedContinue reading “Aaarrgghhh! Hands!”
W. I. P.
Here’s my latest work-in-progress; a manier noir drawing in graphite worked up from a drawing in my sketchbook. I get very dirty doing manier noir drawings and my studio is covered in a fine film of graphite and charcoal – hoovering on Monday then 😦 . This evening I went to the opening ofContinue reading “W. I. P.”
Another New Model
It’s a season of new models at our life drawing group; a new female model last week and a new male this week. I had fun with the pastels then did some smaller studies of his hands and feet. It was a one hour pose with some serious foreshortening – I’m a glutton forContinue reading “Another New Model”
A New Model
We had a new model at life drawing tonight. She’s great but I always find it hard when I start to draw a new model, until I get used to them. I generally use different drawing materials with different models so it takes a while to work out what I’m going to use.
Inspiration
There’s a lot of tecchie stuff to do when you’re an artist and today I started scaling up some sketches onto the large pieces of paper I’ve prepared for a series of ‘manier noir’ drawings. I started by soaking some Fabriano Accademica 240gsm and stretching it onto one of my studio walls (good idea toContinue reading “Inspiration”
Loosening Up
Sometimes I get into a rut with my drawing and I’d been spending too much time doing the Renaissance thing on tiny scraps of paper, so this week at life drawing I used my dip pens and Indian ink, along with wash and brushes, into an A2 cartridge pad. It made my linework much freer.Continue reading “Loosening Up”
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