Tag: figurative drawing
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Charcoal and Gesso Fun
Repeating the pose from yesterday, I used a piece of A2 paper that had some layers of figure drawing practise, each one covered with gesso. This makes for a sumptuous textured surface, and another layer of gesso went over the most recent sketch to make a blank page for this drawing. I used the same…
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XL Charcoal XL Paper XL Toes
I was feeling like some big mark-making, so I pulled out one of the XL paper sheets (A1 size) and one of my XL charcoal chunks. They are water-soluble, but I didn’t play with that aspect for this piece, because once it was on the page I liked the way it looked. The only thing…
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Pan Pastels Mixed Media Figure
I have watched a few demonstrations using pan pastels, and I’ve followed a couple of classes, and never really found a way with the medium that feels natural to me. I do really like using them, even though I have this weird conflict with dry mediums because I can’t be arsed with the whole sealing…
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Loch Lee and Figure Study
Today was a long, filling-the-well day. We travelled to Glenesk and walked around 6 miles altogether in fairly hot weather that was forecast as cooler and a chance of rain. We did get some sprinkles of rain, and the clouds came in about, but it was still hot. You may have picked up that I…
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Hand In My Sketchbook
More fun with hands today. I pulled out a bunch of art supplies that I haven’t used in a while, and mixed things up a bit. There’s a chinagraph pencil, a gel pen, woodies, sharpies, watercolour pencils, neocolor IIs. Playing a lot with the supplies, and using swirly gestural marks, and having fun being loose.…
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Resource Unlocked
Immensely chuffed with myself today for finally doing a small task that has been lingering for far too long. I have a CD-ROM of figure poses, I think there are 1,600 options, that I have been meaning to transfer to my flash drive for months, probably longer. Today I finally performed this really quite simple…
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Chonky Marker
I was searching this blog to try and find a reference to when I finished my last A4 sketchbook so I could date the spine, because I neither dated the last page, nor dated the spine at the time. I eventually located the post, but on the way I got a kind of tour of…
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Foreshortened
I have a stack of unused canvases that should be embarrassing, but they’re not. I do seem to have acquired an excess of little 6″ square ones, tho. I think they are a nice size for friends and family to pick up as gifts for me, and I am never, ever going to say no…
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Decompress
I spent a little time on an intriguing Let’s Face It class today, as well as some play with gel plates. I’m having that post-social need to regenerate thing, alongside feeling extremely creeped out at how silent some folk are being about the ongoing genocide that is now extended to another country. The privilege I…
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Turquoise Hair
Today I did some practise with gestural figure drawing, and a bit of colour. I like what happened here. Til the morn, Suzanne 145/200
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Crappy Day
I do not like days like today. I smashed my phone screen. I’ve never managed that before, but wow did I smash it. I’m really frustrated because the phone is perfectly serviceable, and had a lot of life left in it. I am not one for replacing phones every five minutes, and had no plans…
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