Monday 28 June 2010

A small oil done at the Liver Sketching Club, using a limited palette of white, venetian red, yellow ochre and utramarine blue.

Wednesday 23 June 2010

Two "quickies2 from a drawing session,each no more than 45 seconds. Drawing quickly is a wonderful exercise for seeing the whole pose and getting it down quickly.

Monday 21 June 2010

A quick drawing of a male model, probably no more than 90 seconds

Friday 18 June 2010

A new model at the Liver Sketching Club. I arrived late so, having only 90 minutes I decided to use just 3 colours venetian red, french ultramarine and white and go for tonal values.

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

A drawing of Arthur, one of the models at the Liver Sketching Club. Done in sanguine, it took about 3 hours (including tea breaks).

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

Model posing in the studio. Her hair was being blown by a fan heater, but it looks as though she is sitting out in the open by the sea!

Wednesday 9 June 2010

A portrait ofShell,nearly done, just needs a few tweaks.

Monday 7 June 2010

Heard today that this painting has got a prize in the local art exhibition.

Sunday 6 June 2010

my model, having a rest.

I decided I would set myself a difficult task with this nude, so set up at her head to give some extreme foreshortening. Quite pleased with the result.

Thursday 3 June 2010

Another sunset, this time mirrored in the perfectly still water of the marine lake at West Kirby.

Wednesday 2 June 2010

We had our first (of many, I hope), Art Fairs in West Kirby on Monday and one of the pics I sold was this small nude. I worked on this for months trying to get it right and in the end, let it go a little bit too cheaply I think. But the new owner loves it so she got herself a bargain.