At Swansea Print Workshop we do a lot of recycling and any prints that people leave behind after teaching sessions, ones they were not happy with, are reused in some way. Some that have a clean side are bagged up and sold on for drawing, sketching and proof prints. I bought a bag to useContinue reading “Life Drawing: Highlights And Midtones”
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Life Drawing: Paint And Card
I’m just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop and it’s late. I did a graphite sketch of our model onto paper prepared with an olive green acrylic paint, applied with a squeegee, and then used a piece of stiff card to apply some highlights with white acrylic. About 30 minutes in all. GoodContinue reading “Life Drawing: Paint And Card”
One Model, Four Faces
Trying out some different ways of drawing our lovely life model. I used graphite but went from a fairly academic approach, through some slight abstraction focusing on shapes and patterns to a very stylised linear drawing, which I later used for a linocut.
That First Ink!
I love that moment when my lino block (traditional grey) is carved and ready to ink up. I love that first stroke of the roller (brayer) across the surface, when you start to see the image revealed. Then the satisfaction of inking the whole block, ready for printing. And that heavenly smell of oil-based inkContinue reading “That First Ink!”
Sketchbook Archives: 59
Another dive into my archives of scribbles and these were done at a public arts event in May 2015, the Fringe Arts Bath. A group of like-minded scribblers from the Swansea area descended on the Bath city centre and did some timed live sketching. It was really exhausting; the weather was very hot and weContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 59”
Back To Life Drawing
I’ve finished my artist residency at Swansea’s Urban HQ and slipped back to normal routine with Life Drawing at Swansea Print Workshop last night, working with this lovely model. I pre-coloured some vintage paper with an olive-y green acrylic screen-printing medium and drew onto it with 4B Graphite. I like the look of it in realContinue reading “Back To Life Drawing”
And…Relax (And Diet!)
My artist residency at Swansea’s Urban HQ ended yesterday and I’m relaxing today, pottering in the garden, enjoying the sunshine and being given the runaround by Sparta Puss and Erik The Tabby Boi; (Bill aka William Chat Noir is just chilling). Tomorrow I’ll start planning what I’m going to do with the work I’ve created – someContinue reading “And…Relax (And Diet!)”
Artist In Residence: Day 16 – And The Final Proof!
It’s the last-but-one day of my artist residency at Swansea’s Urban HQ and I did a first proof of the last block I carved, block number 12. I started out on April 1st with a pile of portrait sketches, done from life, a stack of traditional grey lino blocks and my carving tools. I’m really pleased withContinue reading “Artist In Residence: Day 16 – And The Final Proof!”
Artist In Residence Day 15 – More First Proofs
Here are a couple of the first proof prints close up, with their lino blocks inked-up. It’s been really interesting to play around with textures to create the features on the faces. I used several of my carving tools, including ones I had hardly used before, especially on this small scale. I only have 2Continue reading “Artist In Residence Day 15 – More First Proofs”
Artist In Residence: Day 15 – Nearly Finished Proofing
I’ve done first proofs of 11 newly carved lino blocks. I have a bit more carving to do on number 12 but I think I should be able to proof that one as well soon. I’ve done all these during my artist residency at Swansea’s Urban HQ . I only have 2 more days left before theContinue reading “Artist In Residence: Day 15 – Nearly Finished Proofing”
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