I prepared some vintage paper with a bluish acrylic paint, applied with a squeegee for my recent life drawing session and as I was sketching the model, I noticed that the uneven distribution of the paint was suggesting a ghostly face. I decided to stop drawing our model’s own face, I’ll go back to thisContinue reading “Life Drawing: The Ghostly Face”
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Life Drawing: Changing Medium
I changed the medium I use at last night’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. I’ve been using conté crayons but I switched to Caran d’Ache Neopastels. They’re so soft and buttery, gorgeous to use. I also changed the paper, preparing some vintage paper with a pale blue acrylic ground, which really complemented theContinue reading “Life Drawing: Changing Medium”
Life Drawing: The Heatwave
It was very hot last Thursday at the life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop, the hottest day of the year so far and a bit of a record breaker. We were careful not to overload our model, having some sitting poses so he could rest. I have cropped this quite a lot because itContinue reading “Life Drawing: The Heatwave”
Life Drawing: Self Censoring
When I first took up social media, way back in the early days with MySpace, things seemed much more relaxed and artists were mostly able to post authentic artwork of nudes without much hassle. Not any more, not for some years now. So I’ve cropped this, which is a shame because I think it’s oneContinue reading “Life Drawing: Self Censoring”
Female Nude (parental guidance)
I’ve put parental guidance on this because it goes to my Facebook profile and these days Facebook is a bit finicky about nudity, even when it’s art. It didn’t use to be so. When I joined Facebook, the pictures going round were pretty close to the bone. But now it’s gone all respectable so I’mContinue reading “Female Nude (parental guidance)”
Heavy Man, Little Women and Huge Corset.
A load of artists got together in the centre of the city last Saturday to do two hours of disruptive art events, a mostly humourous approach to involving the public in some off-beat art and completely independent of any funding bodies and their agendas.Although the organisers had cleared the event with police and localContinue reading “Heavy Man, Little Women and Huge Corset.”
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