Tag: Matter
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Canela 3: Tony / Joker Halloween Portraits
Here’s a spooky portrait session for Halloween – and not one for those who have coulrophobia – it’s Tony as the Joker from Batman! This was a lot of fun, and rather hard painting and drawing someone with face makeup on. There are two approaches – either ignore it, or go abstract, because I know…
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Canela 1: Life Drawing – Maurice
Many years before the pandemic I intended to check out the sessions at the Canela Cafe in Hampton Court but never did – the longer journey put me off. They do a variety of life sessions and portraiture, and I’d been at the previous week’s private view and scoped the place out – I really…
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Portraits At The Pub 37: Ian
I’ve been a bit slow posting work – this is the portraits session from over two weeks ago..a lot has happened since then! Unusually I only did four or five pieces – I think there is one I banned from posting, but all pretty good. Particularly like the Van Gogh style paintstick piece – it’s…
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Raven’s Art
Every once in a while I test whether I still hate doing river pieces, after the burn out last year during Lockdown 1. The answer is: sort of, I feel I have done this subject to death so unless there is something unusual going on, a different angle, or not much time before it goes…
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Return To The Hollow Tree / No Fishponds
A slight return to a few previous haunts with some new techniques but with a few surprised with a couple of recent pieces not posted to Instagram! I’d scoped out Fishponds Park as a place I’d like to work back at the start of lockdown in spring, especially the ponds themselves. But at the time…
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Life Drawing #62 – Anna
Last life drawing of the year, and a pretty good selection using the new Khadi pad and paper, and Rosaspina paper. A good dip pen and ink wash drawing in the Khadi pad, and a very Van Gogh pose which I called ‘Sorrow’ but iridescent medium snuck in to my paints so it ended up…
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