Tag: Pencils
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Portraits At The Pub 35: Marsha
Less happy with this portraits session unlike previous ones, not sure why. I like the woody pencil piece, and the abstract parts of this paint stick – the knees and chair specifically, but I do feel the parallel pen piece didn’t work – looks like she’s terrified…and the other paint stick piece is rather wonky.…
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X-Series & Marine Abstracts
Following the lead of 2020’s Zebra Abstracts I did some large A1 garden abstracts last year using some (then new) FW Acrylic Inks – called the X-Series or X-Men series due to the prominent X in a circle but I don’t want to get sued by Marvel (and I really am not a fanboy of…
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Old Work: Cornwall and Beyond
I will admit I was reticent to show this work as unlike the other pre-degree work it’s less technically able, and it’s most definitely the work of a child – because I was! When I was a young teenager I was moving around because of my parent’s divorce – hence Shropshire where my mother lived…
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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…
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Portraits At The Pub 19 – Kate
Last session of the year, and we had Kate sitting for us. As usually a mixture of styles, only did three pieces but luckily all three were keepers. Wasn’t totally happy with the large Neocolor 2 piece ‘Starry Night’ this time, but I liked the face and the wine glass. And another good white on…
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Portraits at the Pub 18: Ian
This week’s Portraits at the Pub was a convivial affair, and I got some good work done with some new paper and some old crayons. Looking back at the work it’s like the life drawing of old, the regular comment that it looks like the work of several different artists (why I used to say…
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