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Bird studies
Prompted by my posting of my parakeet studies, I remembered this session but couldn’t find it here. Not sure why these bird studies from November 2019 were never added, I guess they fell through the cracks because they are a really rare thing from me: pencil drawing. I have a complicated history with pencil because…
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Filter Bed Drawings
Since Inktober I’ve been ramping up the daily drawing (with a new challenge I will post about shortly) but this has a knock-on effect with working generally. I’ve been continuing the experimentation with white on black as part of the Dark Series (someone on Instagram called it ready for ‘Dark Mode’ which I might nick),…
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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,…
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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,…
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Watercolours #4 & #5
Although I’ve not been posting them, I have been trying to grab the odd bit of winter sunshine (haha! Sunshine? In the UK? You have to be kidding!) or at least not pouring with rain. I’ve been experimenting with using the Neocolor II and W&N Watercolour sticks instead of traditional watercolours…with mixed results. The most…
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Not all pens are made equal: waterproof pen roundup
This blog isn’t meant for equipment reviews, but I’ve been testing quite a few liner and brush pens recently. I’ve found surprisingly that not all the ones that are marked ‘waterproof’ are, well that waterproof or take an age to dry. This is a problem as I found yesterday standing in the freezing cold trying…
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