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Scribbleheads…

I keep meaning to do more random sketches from imagination, just letting my bit of graphite scribble away to see what happens, but I find it so hard to let go and not work from life. I MUST TRY HARDER!!! 😀

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

It’s A Heatwave!

It’s so hot at the moment, we Brits don’t do extreme weather very well. It’s been over 30 Centigrade for the past few days. It’s quite a mild climate here in South Wales anyway, here’s one of the palm trees on the beach nearby.

Sketchbook Archives: 63

Looking through my sketchbooks from June 2015, I was going through a phase of pasting brown wrapping paper into my sketchbooks to give a bit more variety to my drawings. Here are some I did of musicians at one of the local folk clubs.

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”

Channelling Ravilious.

I stayed in East Sussex last week, with some very dear old friends. We went to Towner Eastbourne and saw the permanent collection of work by the early 20th century artist Eric Ravilious. I’d always found his landscape paintings a little bit insipid, if I’m honest, but we went walking along the South Downs afterContinue reading “Channelling Ravilious.”

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”

Sketchbook Archives: 62

These are the last 5 of a series of 15 drawings I did in May 2015, based on sketches I made from life, out and about en plein air, drawing real people in real places. They are drawn over “transfer” prints, inkjet prints that are transferred chemically to fine art printmaking paper; mostly I used Bockingford and Somerset. OnceContinue reading “Sketchbook Archives: 62”