A small oil done at the Liver Sketching Club, using a limited palette of white, venetian red, yellow ochre and utramarine blue.
Monday 28 June 2010
Wednesday 23 June 2010
Friday 18 June 2010
Thursday 17 June 2010
These two sketch drawings were to illustrate how perspective affects the human body. The lines through the hips, nipples and shoulders show howthey would all reach a vanishing point if carried on. It also emphasises yesterdays idea that the body is a solid rectangle in its simplest form, and obeys the laws of perspective like any other solid body. (Of course you don't have to draw it like that, if you don't want to!)
Wednesday 16 June 2010
I run life drawing classes in a hall near where I live, and part of the teaching involves doing small quick drawings to illustrate certain points. Two here show how I was demonstrating to a student how light & shade can be used to give solidity to a form. If we think of the body as a series of solid shapes, we can see that the planes facing the light source will be brightly lit, while the planes that face away will be in shadow. For instance in drawing 1 only the top is lit while most of the back, from where this student was, is in shadow. In drawing 2 the light was on her front, so the sides of the body,legs, arms etc are in shadow.
Tuesday 15 June 2010
Monday 14 June 2010
This is a painting of some random objects that were lying about on a shelf. I had just changed a dud light bulb, the mask is a souvenir from Venice and the toy ambulance is one I used to play with when I was a kid. It must be one of the oldest things that I still have that is mine, now I think about it.
Friday 11 June 2010
Sunday 6 June 2010
Wednesday 2 June 2010
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