This is painted across two pages of a sketchbook and scanned in two halves. I’ve tried to find a way of stitching the two halves together, but can’t find a way to do it.
This is painted in response to the EDM challenge to paint something green.
Author Archives: Carole
Gleaming
Life drawing from Friday. We had some luscious silky smooth white chalk to play with. As you can see, I rather overdid it, but it was so lovely to use. Much, much more practice required for life drawing. I’ve been continuing to draw daily, and have been rather compulsively drawing my wooden artist’s mannequin, trying to get proportions right. I still get the legs too short!
Barbed
A1 paper. Ink drawn with sticks and fibres. Preliminary study for ‘Fractured Landscape’.
Blown Tree in A1 format
Charcoal and pastels on A1 paper. Preliminary drawing for ‘Fractured Landscape’.
Figure Studies
Drawn from photos. I need so much more practice at drawing the figure! Drawn with 8B pencil which seems to drag on the paper. I expected it to be softer.
Roped in
Collagraph print. Part of Wrappings and Bindings project, completed last term.
Daily drawing today: Two A1 drawings for Fractured Landscape – both at college, and I didn’t take my camera with me.
Bankfield Museum
Drew these quick sketches in Bankfield Museum and Art Gallery. I added the watercolour wash later at home.
Gesture drawings
Now that I’m briefed by Christeen and Bill as to what gesture drawing is (i.e. fast, loose drawings that focus on the gesture of a person rather than on any details), I thought I’d have a go.
Now that I look at these drawings again, I realise I’ve managed my usual trick of making the figure’s legs too short. Now, I know this is probably because I have short legs in proportion to the rest of me, but you’d think I’d learn, wouldn’t you?
By the way – I’ve just finished a sketchbook that I started on 2 June last year. Let’s see if I can fill the next one a bit faster. 🙂
Sheep jaw in oils
I finally cracked open my new oil paints today (they arrived last week). This is the first ‘coat’ on an attempt to paint the sheep jaw that I found on the moors. I’ll be doing more to this once the first coat has dried (however long that takes). It’s very exciting – I haven’t painted with oils since I was a teenager (and then I only painted a couple of things).
It was surprisingly difficult to crack open the tubes and get painting. There’s something about oils that make me feel I have to do a ‘proper’ painting i.e. ‘get it right’. Whatever that means.
But I really enjoyed using them. The feel is so different to acrylic. And I can do sgraffito! I’ve never been able to do that with acrylic – it dries too fast.
Figure studies
I need to improve my figure drawing, but I’ve done very little life drawing. When I do get to a life drawing class, I’m hampered by being terribly slow.
I got the idea for using a Yoga book from Christeen, and am hoping that although these aren’t from life, they will teach me something about the figure that will help when I come to draw from life.
By the way – I’ve now been drawing daily for a whole month.