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Life Drawing: Just Back

Just back from life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop and I’m just doing a quick post before going to bed. I did the drawing using a graphite stick for the finer details and a graphite block (6B) for the strong lines and darker shading. Nos da, goodnight

Life Drawing: No MoJo

My mojo just wasn’t with me last night at life drawing at Swansea Print Workshop. We had a great model that I’ve drawn before and I had lovely paper and graphite, but I just couldn’t get into it. The drawing isn’t too bad, but the likeness isn’t quite there. Sometimes that’s just the way itContinue reading “Life Drawing: No MoJo”

Life Drawing: A Quiet Pose

It’s nice to get a quiet, reflective pose when I’m working with a model. It sort of influences how I do the drawing. I was able to do a lot of measuring with this one, which paid off because it’s fairly accurate. I prepared some recycled printmaking paper with a layer of acrylic paint squeegeedContinue reading “Life Drawing: A Quiet Pose”

Life Drawing: Highlights And Midtones

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”

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!”

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!)”