Nearly finished this life drawing, I recorded the different stages with my phone camera last week at Swansea Print Workshop. I’m using the black and white conté crayons to finish off the hair and add detail to the ear, and the sanguine to begin blocking in the background.
I am putting a new drawing of an ancient monument one up every day. If you want to buy one, you can see them by clicking on the image below or the Artfinder link at the top right of this page.
At this stage, I’m working up the hair in black and adding some darkish tones in sanguine with conté crayons. I’m working onto brown wrapping paper, I like the effect of it. It’s a shame it doesn’t last, it will fade and fall apart in a few years, but when I use expensive paper for drawing I often find it very inhibiting and can’t get the faster, looser, more experimental effects that I can with wrapping or newspaper.
This is a life drawing I did at Swansea Print Workshop last week. I photographed it at different stages so I could look back on how I developed the drawing.
I am putting a new drawing of an ancient monument one up every day. If you want to buy one, you can see them by clicking on the image below or the Artfinder link at the top right of this page.
Continuing with the life drawing I did last week at Swansea Print Workshop, I have finished with the detailed black line for the time being and have strengthened the white highlights. Working on brown paper is great, it gives a ready made mid-tone and also a warmth to the work. I’m drawing with conté crayons, I love the oiliness of them which allows me to do fine detail without the crumbliness of charcoal.
I am putting a new drawing of an ancient monument one up every day. If you want to buy one, you can see them by clicking on the image below or the Artfinder link at the top right of this page.
Digital cameras are great! I can photograph different stages of a drawing to see how it comes together. It’s nice to look at how a drawing develops in the cold light of day, I’m too absorbed when I’m drawing to analyse what I’ve done. I did this life drawing last week at Swansea Print Workshop’s life drawing group, using black, white and sanguine conté crayon. At this point, I’m still working on some very detailed black line.
I am putting a new drawing of an ancient monument one up every day. If you want to buy one, you can see them by clicking on the image below or the Artfinder link at the top right of this page.
Here’s the third stage of the life drawing I did last week at Swansea Print Workshop, introducing some defined black line over the vague white and sanguine marks, all conté crayon. I’m working onto ordinary brown wrapping paper.
I am putting a new drawing of an ancient monument one up every day. If you want to buy one, you can see them by clicking on the image below or the Artfinder link at the top right of this page.
The second step drawing the life model at Swansea Print Workshop last week, adding some conté crayon in sanguine, drawn onto brown wrapping paper. It’s about A2 size to fit my travel drawing board.
I am putting a new drawing of an ancient monument one up every day. If you want to buy one, you can see them by clicking on the image below or the Artfinder link at the top right of this page.
I worked on a portrait head at the life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop last week and took a digital photo at each stage. Here are the first few marks, in white conté crayon onto brown wrapping paper.
I am putting a new drawing of an ancient monument one up every day. If you want to buy one, you can see them by clicking on the image below or the Artfinder link at the top right of this page.
In its sixth year, this touring international exhibition of miniature original prints is coming to Swansea tomorrow, opening with a Welsh tea from 5-7pm and then daily (except Mondays) until mid-January – but check the website for opening hours over the holiday season.
Click on the link here to see the write up of the exhibition in our local paper.
I am putting a new drawing of an ancient monument one up every day. If you want to buy one, you can see them by clicking on the image below or the Artfinder link at the top right of this page.
Had a virus a couple of weeks ago and have been poorly ever since, something like post-viral fatigue which has really wiped me out so I haven’t done much artwork. Here’s one of the redrawings I have been doing, based on the drawings I did en plein air throughout South Wales earlier in the year, working into a brown paper sketchbook with white, sanguine and black conté crayons. These redrawings are allowing me to move towards greater abstraction and this one almost looks like a mask.
I’m in the process of redrawing the series of major drawings of ancient standing stones I did earlier this year. This is the Cockett Valley stone, undiscovered for thousands of years until woodland clearance in the 1970s took place to extend the school playing fields. It’s now out in the open, overlooking the small river snaking along Cockett Valley. I’m redrawing into an A4 brown paper sketchbook with a limited pallette of black, white and sanguine conté crayons, with a view to developing a suite of lino or wood cut prints next year.
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