Category: Chalk
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Older Work: Ironbridge & Shropshire
When I got my older pre-degree work back, I somehow missed looking through the document tubes – I mentioned some of the pieces I was missing like the red female life drawing, and they were actually there! I looked in there recently and found a lot of work from Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale in Shropshire, Easter…
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Life Drawing #48 – Sarita
Sarita is a regular on this site, I’ve drawn here at least three times now, and she always brings the A-game as a model. This time no Posca work as was tradtional but more of the Woody 3-in-1 pencils, a nice quick charcoal/chalk/graphite drawing and some watercolour work. Really loving those XL blocks I got…
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Life Drawing #44 – Hugh
I’ve drawn Hugh before, at least 2 or 3 times, and it was a really hot day with bus meltdown so we had only a few people in, which made it a nice small friendly session rather than the cramped together muddle that will kick in from September…Did some really nice ink/quill drawings this time,…
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Life Drawing #39 – Champaa
A new session and new a technique – this time experimenting with masking pens and fluid. Almost a printing technique, using the masking fluid which dries really quickly as an initial drawing layer of detail or highlights, then laying over India Ink with the quill or watercolour to get a more loose/expressive feel without losing…
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Life Drawing #38 – Boyko
Sometimes a session is made by a great model – usually someone who is a professional. Boyko was one of these, both older, bearded and male – all of which tends to be rare in these sessions sadly. Not sure what the rope/string was about (he’s a bit young to be a goatherd with his…
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Life Drawing #35 – Marcus
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,…
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