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”
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Life Drawing: 15 Minute Heads
I was working with a new model at last week’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop, and it takes a while to get used to someone’s features. These are 15-minute sketches, I was able to take a bit of time to get some measurements done. I used conté crayons in white, sanguine and blackContinue reading “Life Drawing: 15 Minute Heads”
Sketchbook Archives: 64
Going back to July 2015 for this group of portrait sketches of elder women. I used conté crayons in white, sanguine and black onto brown parcel paper pasted into a sketchbook.
Life Drawing: The First Sketches
These are the first quick sketches from last night’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. I haven’t worked with this model before and it takes a while to get used to someone’s features, it takes a lot of concentration. These are 5-minute sketches and I used conté crayons in white, sanguine and black. IContinue reading “Life Drawing: The First Sketches”
With Minimal Strokes.
I went out walking in the dark one evening, down to the beach (I’m so lucky to live so close to the sea) and I took a pad of Khadi paper that I had brushed with a thin layer of black ink, to give a grey wash. I took some black and white conté crayonsContinue reading “With Minimal Strokes.”
Getting Stuck In…
After trawling through photos and sketches, I’m getting stuck in to working out different bits of the composition. This is partly to get familiar with the details and partly to work out if this is what I want to go with. This is based on a photo I took of the spectacular fire spinner DdraigContinue reading “Getting Stuck In…”
Trawling For Inspiration.
I’ve been trawling through my sketchbooks and photo archives for images to inspire me to develop a large-scale woodcut or painting of the annual Mari Lwyd celebrations locally. These are showing some promise. The fire spinner is the amazing Ddraig Williams and he’ll be a central figure if the composition works out as I want.
Roughing It: A Starting Point.
I’ve been mulling over an idea for ages, years, for a large woodcut or maybe a painting. I’ve been doing smaller pieces of work that have been independent of each other, but also try out elements of a potential larger artwork. Today I finally got off my bot and grabbed an A3 sketchbook (brown paper)Continue reading “Roughing It: A Starting Point.”
#StandingStoneSunday
Through 2016 to 2019, I did a large series of drawings of standing stones out in the field, en plein air as we artists call it, across South Wales, which has been described to me as a Neolithic Landscape of the Dead, there are so many ancient tombs. I was accompanied by archaeologist Dewi BowenContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday”
Storm Damage: The Covid Archives 2.
About a week before the first Covid19 Lockdown began in Wales, Husb and I took a walk down to the West Pier at the mouth of the River Tawe – Abertawe in Welsh and also the indigenous name of Swansea. It had recently been wrecked in a ferocious storm so of course, I had toContinue reading “Storm Damage: The Covid Archives 2.”
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