Tag: paintstik

  • Abstract Advent: Week 2

    Abstract Advent: Week 2

    Last week was a blast, this week for the Abstract Advent the Christmas Shit™ started to bite, and I found it harder to juggle meeting up with people, portrait sessions, getting all the cards and parcels off in a panic because like storms, flooding, wrong kind of wind, snow and ice on the roads as…

  • Life Drawing #61 – Megan

    Life Drawing #61 – Megan

    Given some of the rather slim pickings of my recent life drawings, this week, the second last of the year was a embarrassment of riches. I was trying the Khadi paper book and A3 sheets for the first time, and also the first time I’ve done a watercolour larger than A3, as you can see…

  • Life Drawing #50 – Mia

    Life Drawing #50 – Mia

    It’s been a long pregnant pause between posting life drawing sessions – and here’s a pregnant model! About 7 months apparently and sometimes she had to stop a few times because she was flushed. I was mostly was experimenting with a new Stabilo pencil – all about the Stabilo here at the moment – which…

  • Life Drawing #49

    Life Drawing #49

    This session was very productive also like the last around drawing and the new Woody pencils, but also experimented with some acrylic ink and cheap drawing ink I have as washes. Usually I avoid such ink because I prefer opaque inks like Posca or Molotow, and think the colours look a bit weak – but…

  • Life Drawing #31

    Life Drawing #31

    This session was all about experimenting with the Markal B Paintstiks – they might look like a massive sort of oil pastel but the are actually industrial paint markers used by construction and graffiti types alike (they call them streakers). The odd colours take some getting used to (like when I started with the Poscas,…