Tag: Woody
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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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First Life Drawing in 2 1/2 years – #73
Yes I had my first life drawing in 2 1/2 years last week. I downed tools in the first or second week of March 2022 with a session with Asim – note no mention of the pandemic, the lockdown was that quick. And because the evening sessions at Cass Arts never came back, neither did…
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Art During a Heatwave / Night Work
So last Monday/Tuesday where I live had a heatwave – which is unusual for the UK. Bushy Park registered 39.2C beating the previous record, and nearby Heathrow registered 40.2C and Kew Gardens 40.1C, a record only beaten by 0.1 by a place in Lincolnshire. So how to work as a landscape artist in a heatwave?…
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Richmond Park 2: KillCat Corner, Lilies and Pink Sunglasses
Showing how my plein air use of media has broadened only since March, here is the second selection of work in Richmond Park. These works include pieces in black woody pencil, bright paint stick works, moody watercolour, dark fountain pen and ink, and inktense paints. Although as part one discussed, there is a desperation and…
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The 2021 Great Lightfast Test – 13 months later!
Some of you might remember the inks lightfast tests I did in 2021, or that I said I was doing a bumper test in my window, and I think I mentioned it in the Carbon Ink Review. Well a month late, and surviving the Great Heatwave, here’s the results of the 2022 Big Lightfastness Tests.…
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