Category: Pastel
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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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Life drawing #13
Return of the Multi-Coloured Posca/Pastel Shop! I had abandoned both of those techniques mostly in recent sessions since they didn’t seem to be working for me, and I wanted to concentrate on line and more mannered and focused mark making. I’d try them, but it would look like a mess and thus those experiments didn’t…
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Life drawing #12
This week was an older lady modelling, and I wanted to focus more on accuracy. So wanting a more defined and bold line, I experimented with the free Pigment fine liner I got from Cult Pens which I’d not used. I really liked the drawings I did with it, so I’m definitely getting some more!…
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Life Drawing #11 – Ash
This week I arrived and there was a ladder – it was all about props! Something very siren-like or even Charon about the ones with the long pole…I tried to go for a Ancient Greek feel with the coloured pencil, not worrying too much about accuracy, more about expression and mood and a more naive/primal…
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Life drawing #9
It’s funny, sometimes you do a session and then you just thrust the drawings away in disgust and don’t look at them for ages. Also the Saturday noontime before this session I had an altercation (well assault, a chavvy bully teenage girl hit me from behind on a bus) and of course, the bus ride…
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