Search results for: “rorschach”
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Rorschach series
I have been exploring the abstract nature of watercolour in a series I call ‘Rorschach’ – blotchy, wet-on-wet, unpredictable with fractal drying marks and images that seem to be melting or suggest other darker areas of your psyche. You can find out more about each individual image here – it’s spread over many different posts…
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Portraits At The Pub 52: Marian, Betty and Julian
Forgot to post these from last week, it’s not often we get to draw two people at once at Portraits At The Pub, it makes it a LOT harder, because you always get one person better than the other, one likeness will be closer than the other, or you spend too much time on one…
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Box Hill New for 2022
Back to Box Hill for several visists- the first time in 2022 during the nice early Spring weather (a false spring?) and some new watercolours in a new-ish style and the new-ish Artway Studio 35 sketchbook. I seem to be fascinated with the budding greenery this time of year, drawing a lot of budding trees…
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Life Drawing and Painting
For over two years I did a life drawing session every week. I saw it as an exercise in pure drawing and mixed media experimentation such as graffiti styles, negative space, and the Rorschach and dark mode series. An exercise in learning to draw the human form but also expressive fast drawing and experimental mark…
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Life Drawing #67 – Annabel
Recently someone said about my last portrait session ‘did you do all these?’. I can see why, my styles and media jumps around somewhat. I mean take the jump between these works – you have a gentle dip pen piece featured above with accidental watercolour background toning – I did a wash and realised the…
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Life Drawing #52
I’ve drawn this model one or two before, I think she’s Brazilian or Portuguese, and usually wears a fabric hair band. I forget her name (sorry) but I did some great drawings in this session. I did some more Derwent XL block work in the 5 minute sketch department (it looks like she did the…