I used my home made walnut ink with two different tools at life drawing the other evening. I did the one above with a traditional dip pen, although I used a brush to do the hair and the swirly bits down the bottom. I find dip pens hard to use at first, I always pressContinue reading “Walnut Two Ways”
Tag Archives: Wales
Just Carving
Today I was cutting lino blocks. That’s all, nothing exciting. Just carving into lino blocks. A Chance To Own One Of My Artworks I have some small screenprints for sale, inspired by my drawings of the taxidermy collection at Swansea Museum. I have given these antique artifacts a modern twist by combining them with imagesContinue reading “Just Carving”
Doing It Differently
Here’s a 30 minute pose from life drawing session last week. I pushed myself to do something a bit different and blocked in the figure roughly with a square end brush and some of my home made walnut ink, thinned to a pale-ish wash. Than I worked into it while it was wet with aContinue reading “Doing It Differently”
The Gloucester Hole
I sat on the bank of the River Wye today, in Wales, looking across at England. The river forms the border in the town of Chepstow and Husb and I did a day trip and ended up there. I had a bit of a scribble en plein air on my Khadi paper sketchpad with DalerContinue reading “The Gloucester Hole”
The Three Quickies
Here are the three quick poses that we started with at life drawing last night, two x 5 minutes and one x 10 minutes. I used conte crayons in sanguine and black onto some A3 vintage paper. I haven’t worked with this model before and it takes me a while to get used to drawingContinue reading “The Three Quickies”
The Sore Coccyx
Spare a thought for life models. It’s really hard work holding a pose for ages. This evening, at Swansea Print Workshop, our poor model’s coccyx started hurting. You can tell by her face. Although to be honest it was great from my point of view because it was a fantastic expression to draw. I’m aContinue reading “The Sore Coccyx”
Drawing A Head
I thought I’d do a portrait at last week’s life drawing session. It’s good practice to try and get a likeness as well as a half decent drawing. Our model is a very striking looking person and is really interesting to draw, sculptural. I used sanguine and white conte crayons onto a slightly textured paper.Continue reading “Drawing A Head”
A Bit Sculptural
After the two five minute poses at the start of every life drawing session, we move onto a 10 minute pose and then a 30 minute one. I was tired this week, end of a long day, and I found it hard to concentrate. The one on the left was 10 minutes and I thinkContinue reading “A Bit Sculptural”
Tired Legs and Skewiff Sketching
Here are the two quick 5 minute poses from last night’s life drawing session at Swansea Print Workshop. I was really tired when I got there, just had time for a bit of tea after work, and I decided not to use an easel but to sit down and draw. Problem with that is theContinue reading “Tired Legs and Skewiff Sketching”
Lush Colours
Here’s the life drawing from last week’s session – a one hour pose. It took me a while to get into it – it’s late and after a day’s work so I’m usually really tired by then. But sometimes the tiredness frees me up a bit. I love the lush colours of my Daler RowneyContinue reading “Lush Colours”
