Tag: conte pencil

  • Older Work: Ironbridge & Shropshire

    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…

  • Night Work #1

    Night Work #1

    As a night owl it’s always frustrated me that half of the day – or more in winter – you’re restricted by what you can do because there is no light. Well unless you live in some deeply dark place with no street lighting and no stars or moon, that’s strictly not true, there is…

  • Life Drawing #35 – Marcus

    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,…

  • Norks and Queens

    Norks and Queens

    Long time without posting, but I’ve been keeping busy. Firstly trying to grab brief moments of reasonable weather after the week of glorious weather went away. From wind trying to blow my artwork away to days that seem nice but turn out grumpy when you finally jump on the bus, had it all. Even had…

  • Life Drawing & Painting #30

    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…