I really like this profile sketch I did at last week’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. I think I’ll develop this into a linocut, I could have an interesting time carving the hair and beard. Maybe I’ll use a bigger piece of lino than I have for my previous ones, to cut moreContinue reading “The Portrait In Profile”
Tag Archives: Olwyn Pritchard
Sketching From Below
This was an interesting 20-minute pose at last week’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. Our model stood on a table and he’s very tall anyway, so I was looking up at him. I’m a little dwt and I was sitting down so I had a good view up his nostrils and his beardContinue reading “Sketching From Below”
That Boy Band Vibe
This is a longer pose from the recent life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop, around 30 minutes. This model is definitely giving off boy-band vibes. I used graphite onto a heavyweight vintage paper (not watermarked). I’ll be running a weekend course based on Dewi Bowen and Olwyn Pritchard’s book, “Hunting The Wild Megalith” onContinue reading “That Boy Band Vibe”
A-HA?
The model I worked with at last week’s life drawing session is a young man with the look of a 1980’s band about him. A few of the artists reckon he looks like he could be from the Norwegian band A-ha. I guess he could be. What do you think? I’ll be running a weekendContinue reading “A-HA?”
#StandingStoneSunday
An illustrated front cover of a new book by Dewi Bowen, “Hunting The Wild Megaligh” with a wild boar, a capstone megalith, illustrations of mountains, valleys and coastlines. And a trail of ancient animals travelling across South Wales.
#StandingStoneSunday: The Book Launch
“Hunting The Wild Megalith“, the book of the journey of the Boar Hunt (Y Twrch Trwyth) is being launched this coming Friday (March 31st) at Swansea’s prestigious GS Artists gallery. The book is based on the theory that the route of The Boar Hunt in the Mabinogion includes most of the major Neolithic and Bronze Age stone monuments acrossContinue reading “#StandingStoneSunday: The Book Launch”
#StandingStoneSunday … Book of the Boar!
Hunting the Wild Megalith, a new book about Neolithic monuments in Wales by Dewi Bowen and Olwyn Pritchard with art by Rosie Scribblah
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