Photos: My Life Drawings at Skyeworks
I’ve various life drawings in the exhibition that opens at Skyeworks Gallery tomorrow. Pencil, pen, water-soluble graphite, watercolor pencils, (Inktense), black ink, and a few done with my...
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Human Anatomy: Knowing & Seeing More
I’m doing Alan McGowan‘s Anatomy for Artists workshop again, over two weekends (read about the first time on my blog and on Artist Daily). This time round, I’m finding the info is really consolidating...
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At the End of Day 1: Life Drawing into Painting Workshop
First day of Alan McGowan‘s “Life Drawing into Life Painting” workshop saw us working with tone only. Started with charcoal, gesture line and block drawings, then longer charcoal drawing. Some...
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At the End of Day 2: Life Drawing into Painting Workshop
Second day of Alan McGowan‘s “Life Drawing into Life Painting” workshop saw us start with three charcoal drawings, both as warm-ups and to increase the number of drawings we do overall during the week....
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At the End of Day 3: Life Drawing into Painting Workshop
Day three of of Alan McGowan‘s “Life Drawing into Life Painting” workshop saw us start with three 10-minute charcoal drawings, then onto limited palette painting with oils and an afternoon-long...
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At the End of Day 4: Life Drawing into Painting Workshop
Day four of Alan McGowan‘s “Life Drawing into Life Painting” workshop saw us start with two 10-minute charcoal drawings, followed by a 20-minute one, then onto some colour theory and a painting with a...
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At the End of Day 5: Life Drawing into Painting Workshop
Day five of Alan McGowan‘s “Life Drawing into Life Painting” workshop saw us start with four five-minute poses, followed by three 10-minute poses, an hour pose, and the long afternoon pose. We were...
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Monday Motivator: Focus on the Core not the Outline
“The Greeks don’t start from the outline, they start from the centres, from the cores. … “This question — Millet draws like that too — more than anyone else — is perhaps the root of all figure painting...
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Figuring It Out (aka Life Drawing)
I’m away for the weekend for a little creative R&R, on a life drawing/painting workshop being led by Alan McGowan for Art Lochaber. Besides the creative stimulation (and break from the varnishing,...
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Notes from a “Colour and the Figure” Workshop
After four days’ life painting in Edinburgh in a workshop by Alan McGowan I found myself repeating “build a bridge between the orange and the blue, build a bridge between the orange and the blue“. Or...
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