Life Drawing at Higham Hall Day #2
Today was about portraiture, attempting to achieve likeness and drawing the head on a larger scale. Started with an charcoal drawing, most of the body. Then did a three-colour pastel version, which...
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Today’s focus was on working expressively, loosely, intuitively, starting with 10–15 minute poses, getting longer. I started with pencil, then moved onto pastel as well as water-soluble graphite and...
View ArticleLife Drawing at Higham Hall Day #4
A bit delayed, but here are some photos from the last day of life drawing at Higham Hall, when we concentrated on portraiture and getting a likeness. I don’t do much watercolor except in my sketchbook,...
View ArticleLife Drawing at Skyeworks
During Sunday’s life drawing session at Skyeworks we started with a few five-minute warm-up drawings, then model Les Duncan kept the same pose for the rest of the afternoon. I opted for a foreshortened...
View ArticleDrawings From Open Life Session
Was at the drop-in Saturday afternoon life-drawing session at the Leith School of Art. Poses from 15 to 45 minutes. I started with pencil, then moved onto Inktense blocks.
View ArticleTaking an Anatomy Workshop: Day 1
That’s the first day of the “Anatomy for Artists” workshop completed. It’s by Alan McGowan, linked to the Leonardo da Vinci: Mechanics of Man Exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery in Edinburgh. A fabulous...
View ArticleTaking an Anatomy Workshop: Day 2
Day two of Alan McGowan‘s “Anatomy for Artists” workshop saw us looking at the bones and muscles of the upper leg, arm and hand. During the drawing sessions, working from the model, I found myself...
View ArticleTaking an Anatomy Workshop: Day 3
Day three of Alan McGowan‘s “Anatomy for Artists” workshop saw us filling in the ‘last’ bits of the body: the lower legs, feet, and head. Model drives a rickshaw in Edinburgh part of the week, so had...
View ArticleSold: My Cubist(ish) Life Drawing
Skyeworks Gallery has a life drawing exhibition running from 21 to 30 October 2013. I was on gallery duty yesterday, sorting out my drawings into mounts and bags, when someone (who has one of my large...
View ArticlePhotos: 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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