Tag Archives: portrait drawing

It’s A Privilege…

Working with professional models is a privilege. I draw other people too, successfully and less so. Apart from the ability of a professional to hold poses, they don’t have any expectations from the artist. When I’m drawing or painting non-professionals, some, by no means all, can find it difficult to see themselves as I seeContinue reading “It’s A Privilege…”

A Statuesque Head

This is one of the professional models I have been working with at Swansea Print Workshop’s Life Drawing group. She has a wonderfully sculptural, statuesque head and body. I’m trying to reflect that in my drawing here, using a fairly academic style. It’s a 15 minute pose and I used graphite onto paper. I haveContinue reading “A Statuesque Head”

Drawing With Colour: 2

Following on from yesterday’s post, here’s another recent life drawing in colour, instead of my normal black and white. I’m going to try and do at least one colour drawing each session. I’m using Derwent Inktense blocks here onto a heavyweight white paper partly overlaid with a brown speckled Mulberry paper.

Drawing With Colour: 1

Mostly I draw in black on white, but now and again I mix it up a bit and get out some pastels or watercolour drawing blocks (like Derwent Inktense) and use a combination of fine line sketching (Faber Castell Pitt drawing pens) and watercolour drawn on and then wetted using a water reservoir brush.

Trying Out A Different Style

I was late getting to life drawing last week so I didn’t get to do the 3 quick poses that start each session. Here are two at 15 minutes and one at 20 minutes. This is a model I’ve worked with many times over the years and it’s easy to slip into a visual shorthandContinue reading “Trying Out A Different Style”

Just A Quickie Or Two

I didn’t have my mojo with me this evening, or my spectacles, so I found the life drawing session quite difficult. For the last half hour I just made quick sketches of the other people there into my little A6 Indigo covered sketchbook with graphite.

Last Week To See…

It’s the last week to see the Queen Street Gallery Open Art show 2026. There’s so much excellent artwork there, as well as a gallery shop and lovely café right next to the gallery (Number 46). The gallery is just a few minutes walk from Neath railway station, which is on the mainline from LondonContinue reading “Last Week To See…”

Sketchbook Archives: 55

Looking back at sketchbooks from February 2015 and I took a walk on the beach, visited a hospital and a couple of cafés, and hung out at an art gallery opening. I’ll be running a weekend linocut course based on Dewi Bowen and Olwyn Pritchard’s book, “Hunting The Wild Megalith” on February 28th and MarchContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 55”