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”
Category Archives: Pandemic
A Bit Renaissance-y
Here’s the last of the life drawings I did at Swansea Print Workshop last week. It’s a 60 minute pose and I used black paper with conté crayons in black, white and sanguine. Our model wore a long scarf draped over her head and shoulders and combined with the materials, it’s all a bit Renaissance-y.Continue reading “A Bit Renaissance-y”
In Praise Of Life Models
The life models who pose at Swansea Print Workshop are experienced, patient and also physically and mentally fit – you have to be in order to keep still for anything up to an hour. I’ve done it a few times myself and it’s really hard going. Our model this week held this pose on herContinue reading “In Praise Of Life Models”
A Faking Failure
I’ve been faking paintings for about 4 months now, one of my lockdown challenges is to improve my painting skills. This last one (number 17) defeated me. Some of the others have been tough but this one, the original is by William Goodwin, is the first I’ve thought was a complete failure. I just couldn’tContinue reading “A Faking Failure”
Finishing A Sketchbook
A few weeks into the pandemic lockdown, when it became obvious that it was going to last a long while, I set myself some lockdown challenges. One is to improve my painting skills, which I’ve been doing with the Friday Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook, practising faking well known paintings. Another is toContinue reading “Finishing A Sketchbook”
Finally Finished Mockney
This has taken me ages to finish. It’s a copy of a painting by David Hockney – someone on Facebook, I forget who, called it my Mockney. One of my lockdown challenges has been to improve my painting skills so I joined the Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook and learn by copying aContinue reading “Finally Finished Mockney”
Life Drawing And Local Lockdown
Here’s the complete set of life drawings I did last week at Swansea Print Workshop with one of our male models. The three below are fast poses, 2 x 5minutes and 1 x 10 minutes. Above are two x 30 minute poses and one of an hour. The sessions stopped at the beginning of lockdownContinue reading “Life Drawing And Local Lockdown”
5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 30 Minutes
At the beginning of the life drawing sessions at Swansea Print Workshop, we have some shorter timed poses before getting into the half hour and one hour ones. Below left are two five minute poses, a 10 minute at bottom right and the first of the 30 minute poses above. I’ve used willow charcoal ontoContinue reading “5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 30 Minutes”
The Tattoo And The Chair
Here’s another life drawing from the Swansea Print Workshop session last night. It was great to get back to life drawing, it’s really good discipline and practise. This chair has been at the Workshop for as long as I can remember, a voluptuous bentwood and velvet seat. Our model has a striking tattoo going downContinue reading “The Tattoo And The Chair”
Faking It. Baking It.
Still working on the fake Hockney I began last Friday with the weekly Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook, led by the artist Ed Sumner. One of my lockdown challenges was to improve my painting skills and I think it’s working. I feel like I’m learning a lot. This is my sixteenth fake andContinue reading “Faking It. Baking It.”
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