Last week’s life drawing was a good session for watercolour and ink works on the Rosaspina and Unica paper with Naz. I’m still struggling with using larger paper sizes, the large watercolour worked better this time, but it’s always the near A4 and near A3 sizes that work better. I think even with the cheapest Unica paper I am still wary of wrecking the large sheets! This is the problem of being poor for so long (which hasn’t changed, I just realise I need to be bolder and invest in my work, and the little extra enterprise scheme money helps with material costs).
Some odd poses this week, I liked the arms stretched behind (the watercolour above) and the side pose. Less enamoured of the top behind view (above), which was foreshortening city.
I think I did well though, working in the refillable brush pump pen with Jackson’s ink in the wet. It got rather too loose and had to add some white ink via the Posca brush pen, but I like the feel and mood.
The 5 minute drawings can be highly variable – quite often they are the best poses of the whole session (being more dynamic and harder to hold for the model). And sometimes they are the best drawings of the session, other times they go south because there is no time to fix anything or measure proportions. It is purely expressive unfiltered drawing.
That can help the drawing to not overdraw it or fixate on detail as this Woody Pencil drawing here – does help it’s a back view which I have a LOT of practice in now, my best subject!
And the last one is the featured image, a lovely pose and even though I think this is the cheaper Unica paper, shows the benefit of using decent paper with the lovely spread of the watercolour. She looks quite frightened here, which is not completely accidental, the model was usually quite confident but seemed a little nervous here.
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