Category: Conte pencil
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Life Drawing & Painting #30
Continuing the large abstract drawings & paintings using acrylic and acrylic markers, this weeks session was a fairly good one, although the ‘duplicates’ one (‘Three Little Piggies, shown below) wasn’t as good as the triumph of last week. I struggled a bit until I realised purple was the way in, via the acrylics (since then…
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Life Drawing #29
I blame Dorothea Tanning. I went to her exhibition at the Tate Modern and was blown away by her later large paintings where intertwined body parts come in and out, like some fever dream or classical nightmare, in fact my favourite is called ‘Insomnias’. It’s very surreal and I was already planning to try painting…
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Sore and Bolt – Urban watercolours
Beyond the chocolate box! I have an interest in graffiti and ruined, industrial or Victorian municipal buildings (or all three in this case!), as seen by the previous Seething Wells painting. So follows on with ‘⬅ Bolt’ – a painting of the filter beds at Seething Wells above. I’ve also found a ruined lavatory in…
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Life Drawing #27 – Hugh
Some life drawing sessions can be slim pickings, and even more frustrating if they are one of the rare male models because I feel I have to make the most of it – as there is something like a 80:20 ratio female/male in life models at the session. Tonight it was Hugh, who I have…
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Life Drawing #26 – Ash
The previous weeks until last week have been pretty much slim pickings, so good to get my mojo back. This week was Ash, and I’ve just gotten some black to white shading pastels (seen first here) and found I had some Canford black card left, so did some pastel work on it, in reverse fashion.…
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John Drawings #4
A few more sketches from my favourite and most available model! First is a portrait test of some cheap black to white shading pastels from The Works (Boldmere). They are pretty good – I’m of the opinion you can’t skimp on paint but you can do so with most pastels. I was trying to get…
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