Here’s a thirty minute pose from life drawing this week. I used my home made walnut ink and a black conte crayon onto some vintage paper (no watermark, no name) that I had been given. I started with a lighter wash and splooshed it on, letting it drip. The paper is very rough and IContinue reading “The 30 Minute Standing”
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Two 5s And A 10 On A Cyanotype
Here are three sketches from the life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop this week, two 5 minute poses and one for 10 minutes. I have been working with this model for years, she’s a strong woman with great presence. I used conte crayons in white, black and sanguine onto an old cyanotype I recycledContinue reading “Two 5s And A 10 On A Cyanotype”
The Pensive Pose
Here’s the last of my recent life drawings, a longer, 50 minutes, seated pose. I worked mostly with my home made walnut husk ink with conte crayons at the end to firm up some of the lines and highlights. I really like our model’s pensive pose. A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks IContinue reading “The Pensive Pose”
Finished The Upside Down Boy
I’ve finished the little painting of my young relative who likes to hang upside down. It’s a great pose to paint and I did a lot of the process working from the source photos upside down too, as I find it easier to capture a likeness that way. Here are the steps along the way.Continue reading “Finished The Upside Down Boy”
Faking Kandinsky
This week’s fake with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook is one of Wassily Kandinsky’s views of Murnau, painted when he lived there in the early years of the twentieth century. I love it. I’ve used Liquitex Heavy Body acrylic paint onto a gesso-prepared stretched canvas. A Chance To Own One OfContinue reading “Faking Kandinsky”
30 Minutes With Walnut Ink
Here’s a 30 minute pose from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop earlier this week. I like the lying down poses, there’s often some challenging foreshortening, although not this evening. I managed to get the form down on the paper pretty quickly then I had time to just play with the ink – my homemadeContinue reading “30 Minutes With Walnut Ink”
Twenty And Ten
Here are a couple more life drawings from the other night, at Swansea Print Workshop, one for 20 minutes and one for 10. I’m using my home made walnut ink onto various heavyweight vintage papers, with a large round squirrel brush. I’ve used conte crayon right at the end to add a bit of fineContinue reading “Twenty And Ten”
Faffing With Kandinsky
Friday lunchtime is faking with Ed Sumner’s Cheese and Wine Painting Club on Facebook. This week it’s Murnau by Wassily Kandinsky. I’d always thought his work was completely abstract so I was well chuffed to see this, I love it. I haven’t finished it yet, maybe another hour or so of faffing to get itContinue reading “Faffing With Kandinsky”
The Upside Down Boy Is Coming Along
My little painting of my young upside down relative is coming along – I find that the drawing is the hard bit and to be honest painting is a bit boring. But maybe I’m doing it wrong. Painting doesn’t come naturally to me. Anyway, not much more to do now, should be finished soon. AContinue reading “The Upside Down Boy Is Coming Along”
Mucking Around
I need to loosen up with paint. I’m happy to sit and doodle for ages with a pen or pencil into my sketchbook, without bothering what I end up with. But as soon as I get the paints out, I seize up. I pressurise myself to do something “proper”. The other thing I don’t doContinue reading “Mucking Around”
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