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Tag: gestural drawing

  • Gestural

    Gestural

    For today’s share I chose this large figure drawing. It’s on A1 paper that is quite smooth, and I used the long side of a soft pastel for the gestural drawing. Lots of fun, especially after a 6×6 tiny canvas. Til the morn, Suzanne 792/800

  • Sponge and Painty

    Sponge and Painty

    I started today’s practice with a colour mixing exercise, but I was not in the mood for swatching in grids, so I shelved the sketchbook and used the paint for some figure painting. This was painted using sponge brushes, which don’t give you much space for perfectionism, and are just lots of fun to use.…

  • Chonky Marker

    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…

  • Bum Day

    Bum Day

    My little pot of caput mortuum sketching blend died a death today. (is that a niche joke?) Naturally I have forgotten exactly what I put in the pot, so I searched my blog. Naturally when I wrote about making the mix, all I wrote was ‘mixed with medium’. Ha. Waggled some of my sketchbook pages…