The final pose from last week’s life drawing session was about 45 minutes. I got the figure blocked in pretty quickly and I had time to put in her environment which was fun. I’m enjoying playing with my Caran D’Ache NeoPastels, I love the colours. I have an exhibition of (mostly) new work, “Carved HeadsContinue reading “Life Drawing: 45 minutes”
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Life Drawing: 30 Minutes
I really liked this pose, the lines just flowed as I drew her. She’s very tiny and reminds me of the models of the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele back at the beginning of the 20th century. She features in my new exhibition (see below). I worked with Caran D’Ache NeoPastels onto repurposed printmaking paperContinue reading “Life Drawing: 30 Minutes”
Taking Liberties
Here’s another life drawing from yesterday evening’s session at Swansea Print Workshop. I use standard sheets of paper and rarely cut them into another shape, which I suppose is a bit lazy. It’s often difficult to fit the subject into the paper without either cutting bits off or having lots of empty space. I loveContinue reading “Taking Liberties”
Nearly But Not Quite
I did some more painting today – what’s going on with me? I’ve hardly painted since I was in art college back in the 1970s and now I can’t stop. The fabulous GS Artists have been organising free art tutorials, a mixture of Zoom and on-site (observing safety protocols of course). It’s part of theContinue reading “Nearly But Not Quite”
The New Model (Female Nude)
It’s always exciting to get to work with a new model and I had the chance at yesterday’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. This jolly young woman was a joy to draw. The way I draw depends on a number of factors; my materials, my mood, my surroundings and the subject. This is particularlyContinue reading “The New Model (Female Nude)”
A Tight Fit (Male Nude- parental guidance suggested)
Went to life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop yesterday evening and sketched a male model who goes under the name of Ben D’Busse. I started with some very quick drawings and fell into the usual trap of not fitting the figure to the page. I nearly always run over the edges. Ben is aContinue reading “A Tight Fit (Male Nude- parental guidance suggested)”
Blue Nude Reflected
Here’s another from the archives, when I went through a watercolour phase at life drawing group. I like to use watercolour in a choppy fashion, more like a gouache. This older model used to be a dancer and has a very lithe body which is so interesting to draw, a bit like Egon Schiele’s models.Continue reading “Blue Nude Reflected”
Egon And The Paper
Here’s the last of my series of screenprints of favourite artists for a while. I prepared a screen to take to last Sunday’s Art Car Boot Fair in London’s Brick Lane and started to print it during the afternoon. I used a different vintage paper to the one I used for all the women artists.Continue reading “Egon And The Paper”
And Now The Chaps…
I’ve finished a series of 8 silkscreen prints of women artists who inspire or move me and now I’m going to have a bash at the chaps. It’s been harder to source photographs of the male artists. A lot of them have been very formal, posed ones and so many men in the early twentiethContinue reading “And Now The Chaps…”
Eight Women Finished!
Here’s the complete set of silkscreens of 8 of my favourite artists that I have been working on for the past few weeks. I’ve done each of them as editions of 25, except for Frida Kahlo, I did 50 of her. I’m not sure why, I just really liked the brushwork on herContinue reading “Eight Women Finished!”
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