Compare to the previous week this was night and day, much better. I am on a ‘back to basics’ kick, helped in part by a certain unexploded WW2 bomb which meant I didn’t want to walk to Kingston with a heavy rucksack with all my paints and Poscas! This meant no acrylics, no Posca drawings, but lots of pen and chalk, graphite and charcoal drawings and watercolours. I think I have been neglecting my drawing exploring large brush painting and abstract methods, and as I mentioned before I feel like that has exhausted it’s life for the moment. It will be back!
So we have the return of Marcus from February, and interestingly I also did some brush and ink drawings then as I did now, with chalk but this time I was experimenting like my conte/watercolour works with what happens as you use the chalk on wet ink. Some interesting textures.
Also a dip-pen drawing and watercolour (above) and another with Pigma pigment liner and watercolour (detail above and at the bottom of the page) which I’m pretty happy with although the face was in shadow making it hard to work with, but the rest of the body is better. And a loose free-form watercolour with conte pencil.
Cass Arts had a special 25% off day with a lucky dip, and I got these free samples of graphite and charcoal, the large blocks? Never used them before and had a lot of fun using them. The charcoal was I think sanguine/brown, and I did one of the drawings – the ‘Double Vision’ one above without my glasses. I also did a ‘double’ portrait last week – I will do more of these, maybe moving around the model to get multiple views.
I do think my drawings without my glasses work better, oddly. I think it’s because I get distracted by detail and I can focus on tonality, like squinting.
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