Big And Free?

Here’s the other drawing I did at the life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop last night. I did something a bit different this week and uploaded a copy of a cyanotype I did some time ago (it’s in the permanent collection of A Book About Death, Wales) and drew over it. I’ve been usingContinue reading “Big And Free?”

From The Back

Just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop. I drew the back view of the model reflected in the large wall mirror. I used my Samsung Galaxy Note 8 with a free Markers app. I made a pineapple upside down cake for the tea break. It was still warm and welcome on a cold,Continue reading “From The Back”

An Older Woman (Female Nude)

I like to work with this older model at life drawing group at Swansea Print Workshop. She is covered with blue tattoos of plants and animals that belong to the food chain; ants and flies run all over her body, chased by lizards and they swarm over her shoulders into carnivorous pitcher plants. She isContinue reading “An Older Woman (Female Nude)”

New Life Drawing (Female Nude )

Here’s the other life drawing I did at last night’s session at Swansea Print Workshop. I’m lucky that we have so many opportunities for life drawing in this city, it’s not available everywhere. It’s important for me to be able to practice anatomical drawing, I think it’s an absolutely vital part of my artwork andContinue reading “New Life Drawing (Female Nude )”

Smudginess Abounds

  There are different ways of doing monotype prints. This technique is called a direct line monotype. You ink up a plate, usually perspex or glass, with a very thin layer of litho / relief printing ink. Then you gently lay a piece of good quality paper, not too thick,  onto it and carefully drawContinue reading “Smudginess Abounds”

A Cartoon Nude

  So I was only out for about 40 minutes first thing and I didn’t have time to scribble anything and I’ve been working on the computer all day because it isn’t all about creating arty stuff, I wish it was and I’m fed up scribbling my feet, Husb and the cats so here’s oneContinue reading “A Cartoon Nude”

In Praise Of Older Women

The last of this week’s life drawings done with my Samsung Galaxy Tablet Note 8 with the free Markers app. This model is an older woman, I like to work with older models because it challenges our society’s obsession with youth and narrow view of what beauty is.