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  • Life Drawing #31 – Dom

    Life Drawing #31 – Dom

    A good session with Dom, who has apparently posed before but not sure if I missed that one. More acrylic and Markal Paintstik, but also brought in my landscape trick of loose watercolour and conte crayon. Works quite well (I call that one ‘Lenin in the Shower’ cos it looks exactly like Lenin having a…

  • Life Drawing #29

    Life Drawing #29

    I blame Dorothea Tanning. I went to her exhibition at the Tate Modern and was blown away by her later large paintings where intertwined body parts come in and out, like some fever dream or classical nightmare, in fact my favourite is called ‘Insomnias’. It’s very surreal and I was already planning to try painting…

  • Life Drawing #25b – Sarita

    Life Drawing #25b – Sarita

    As you might have guessed, unlike the other creative endeavours I’ve felt that the life drawing has been rather unsuccessful in recent weeks. Well enter Sarita, an amazing model. Turns out my ennui was more the fact I was uninspired by the models we have been having (mostly repeat appearances) who quite often look bored,…

  • Life Drawing #4 – finally a male model!

    Life Drawing #4 – finally a male model!

    Finally after 3 weeks of female models, we have a male model during life drawing class…I was quite nervous about doing him justice and taking full opportunity of it. I’d also brought my graff ink and my DIY graffiti markers (a NY mop for those in the know, and various Kiwis) and you’ll see the…

  • Life Drawing #3

    Life Drawing #3

    It seems the honeymoon period is over, and this was an odd week where I wasn’t happy with anything I did…some failures which was to be expected, happens occasionally (not that I post most of them here!) but not many successes either, it all seemed a bit, well, meh. More Posca pens (Cultpens: yay! Gave…