I thought I’d do a portrait at last week’s life drawing session. It’s good practice to try and get a likeness as well as a half decent drawing. Our model is a very striking looking person and is really interesting to draw, sculptural. I used sanguine and white conte crayons onto a slightly textured paper.Continue reading “Drawing A Head”
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A Bit Sculptural
After the two five minute poses at the start of every life drawing session, we move onto a 10 minute pose and then a 30 minute one. I was tired this week, end of a long day, and I found it hard to concentrate. The one on the left was 10 minutes and I thinkContinue reading “A Bit Sculptural”
Another Week, Another Life Drawing
Just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop, this is a 25 minute pose drawn with a sanguine conte crayon. Off to bed now …. A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks I have some small screenprints for sale, inspired by my drawings of the taxidermy collection at Swansea Museum. I have givenContinue reading “Another Week, Another Life Drawing”
Drawing On Rubbish
I tried something different for the final, one hour, pose at life drawing last week. I had these four pieces of paper that had been coated with yellow printing ink. I’d fished them out of a bin and they’d been knocking around for ages. So I loosely taped them to my drawing board and drewContinue reading “Drawing On Rubbish”
Like Marmite ….
These reclining poses are like Marmite in our Thursday night life drawing sessions at Swansea Print Workshop. People love ’em or hate ’em. Personally I can’t get enough of ’em, I love the foreshortening, I’m a glutton for punishment. I used Daler Rowney artist’s soft pastels for this 30 minute drawing, onto a heavy vintageContinue reading “Like Marmite ….”
Solidity
Here’s one of the thirty minute poses from Thursday evening’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. I worked with black conte crayon, which is a fairly hard, oily pastel, onto some vintage paper, about A2 size. The model was standing very solidly, almost sculptural, and I wanted to capture that. A Chance To OwnContinue reading “Solidity”
Just Back …..
Just back from Swansea Print Workshop life drawing group and these are the first two poses of the evening, both 5 minutes to get us into the swing of it. I blurred some of the drawing because Facebook has been getting a bit twitchy lately and I don’t want to get a ban! It’s annoyingContinue reading “Just Back …..”
Keeping Inside The Edges
Here’s the final pose I drew at life drawing last week, it’s the full one-hour after the break. I tried very hard to keep the figure within the edges of the paper, I often go over the edge but I was disciplined with this one. I used sanguine conte crayon onto vintage paper. A ChanceContinue reading “Keeping Inside The Edges”
The Hands!!!
This is the 30 minute pose from last week’s life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop. Because of Covid19 restrictions, we have designated spaces in the drawing studio so we stick to one spot, no moving around to get different vantage points. I was stationed to one side of our model but I didn’t mind thoughContinue reading “The Hands!!!”
Head And Hand
After the quick poses at the weekly life drawing sessions at Swansea Print Workshop, we move to longer poses of around 25/30 minutes. This was a great one, with brilliant foreshortening – yes, I’m a glutton for punishment. We had 25 minutes so I thought I’d concentrate on our model’s hand and face. I findContinue reading “Head And Hand”
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