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Life drawing. Looking out on Blue.
Looking out on Blue. Acrylic on prepared MDF board. 40 x 50cm.A regular top life model who is always good to draw and paint. The model had a bright white light on the left and a pink / yellow light … Continue reading
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Octavian in Pompeian red
Octavian in Pompeian red. Acrylic on wood with big wooden frame. Painted with a very restricted palette on a Pompeian red ground. I used glazing medium a lot on this. There’s an odd stylisation on this which made another artist … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, Gaius Octavian, life drawing, Painting
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Dreaming of Silver
Dreaming of Silver. Acrylic and pastels over prepared board with glitter. 40 x 50cm.There’s something fun about fighting with a painting surface; glitter does not like to be worked on! Another portrait with a hot red background, another painting with … Continue reading
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Red thoughts.
Red thoughts. Acrylic and pencil over prepared board. 40 x 50cm.As I now have short salt and pepper beard and hair, people automatically think it is a self portrait. Which is interesting. The painting was created in a hour at … Continue reading
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The Disappointed.
The Disappointed. Oil on prepared wood. 30 x 60 cm.The model looked a little unhappy, which I amplified and skewed. When someone said she looked a little like an absinthe drinker, I thought to add a hazy still life in … Continue reading
Life painting: Zigzag
Zigzag. Acrylics on canvas. A3. Trying to make the composition really 3D. Very hard to photograph due to the amount of glazing medium. To me the eye zigzags down the composition. 4 life paintings. Acrylic on paper. The model was … Continue reading
Birthday Portrait. 15.
15. pencils and acrylic on board. A4.There’s some interesting colour choices to make it 3 dimensional. Starting with a mid green, then purple, browns, a little blue and then some red. It follows you around the room.
Drawing from Rodin.
Going to Rodin at the Tate Modern, was as good as I imagined it could be. Really thought provoking and exciting, a show with ideas on scale, theme, revision, finish, intuition, lack of colour, the body and sexuality. It makes … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, drawing, ey exhibition, figurative art, polychromos pencils, rodin, sketchbook, tate modern
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Life Drawing. Now and then.
Now and then. Acrylics and pencil on prepared paper. 90 x 70cm.The painting set up had A Rubens reproduction on the wall, a life model on a chair and a fake fur stole. The mix of textures from the shiny … Continue reading
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Life Drawing. Man with red, man with blue.
Man on blue. Acrylic and pencil on prepared paper. This week I wanted to focus on skin colours. We were in a big room and the model was fairly far away, so no distortions. There were a lot of blue … Continue reading
Pencil portraits.
Birthday card. Faber Castell Polychromos Deep Cobalt Green 158. On A4 cartridge paper 400gsm.So, I had a nice photo of my son, a quick search for an image of the young Napoleon and Viola! Goodbye Ben. Faber Castell Polychromos pencils. … Continue reading
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Good Dogs.
Good Dogs. Oil on canvas board. 40cm square.I’m slowly getting the hang of oil paint. This was a secret commission, so was given a photo and a quick deadline. 1. Thumbnail sketches were made of the composition, then the photograph … Continue reading
Cricket art?
So, I now have a son who plays cricket. This involves a fair bit of looking at people playing in cricket matches. Luckily I have a sketch book and some pencils to hand. Cricket has rhythms, perspectives, big skies, trees … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, cricket, drawing, Regents park, sketchbook, sporting art
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Beautiful trees.
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown’s tree with sheep, summer 2021. Tester pot acrylic and pencil on 1960’s art paper. Around A3. Probably an old imperial size.Chatsworth is a nice place to spend a few hours, lounging in the grounds, trying not to … Continue reading
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Life drawing. Lady of the orange, grey and blue.
Lady of the orange, grey and blue. Acrylic, pencil, and thinned oil paint on paper. 90 x 70 cm.The last pose of the night with a thin blue ribbon draped over the model. It was important to have the line … Continue reading
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Tagged artist, figurative art, life drawing, London art, Painting, The Mary Ward Centre
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Life drawing. Actor in mono.
Recently I’ve been taking my time on finishing paintings started in the life room (two weeks worth are still needing more work). I decided to make something quickly that would be fine without any adjustment. Out came a bottle of … Continue reading
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Zoom life drawing and after.
A and Michelangelo. Acrylic and pencil on paper.This developed over the week. Taking different Michelangelo sculptures and inserting them into the composition. I didn’t know where it was going but it arrived at this state. The model ‘A’ is still … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, artist, life drawing, Male nude, Michelangelo, Painting
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IEA. Triple portrait.
IEA. Oil on canvas. A triple portrait of my children. Made over the last year. In an old frame. Some details.
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Tagged antique frame, artist, figurative art, oiloncanvas, Painting, portrait
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Neil and dogs in the sunshine. 5. Details.
And that’s the book. Hope you enjoyed it.
Neil and two dogs in the sunshine. 4. The finished work.
The whole family in paint.
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