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Life Drawing 4: The Tall lady

A Friday night Life drawing art class at the Mary Ward Centre involving a skull, a tall lady. Made into pretend prints via photoshop. Acrylics, pencils etc etc. Continue reading

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Life drawing extra. Dark Arts 2: In the spirit of Caravaggio

A cool/cold church. Great models. Two and a half hours. A Caravaggio theme. Dramatic lighting. Great fun. Continue reading

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Life drawing 9: 22.11.13. Composition.

40 minutes of furious mark making. Tough stuff. The mirror in the back helps the composition. Five poses of five minutes each. All to make one image. The smallest was a try out for the long pose above. The work … Continue reading

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Life drawing: 4: 18.10.13. The dark haired lady.

Life drawing. Of a dark haired lady. Using acrylic, oil pastel, charcoal and chalk. Continue reading

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Life drawing: 1. 27.09.13. Dark.

There seems to be something rather wrong with the left arm position. I didn’t notice at the time. Made on the floor. Rather large. Now I’ve been getting a bit obsessed with what went wrong with this arm. So I’ve … Continue reading

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Old Sketchbook week: No.7 Random pages.

Some sketchbooks were patchy, a collection of loose leaves and some were too full of certain ex-girlfriends (I didn’t know whether they’d be embarrassed or would like it). These pages were picked from around 1991 -1993. A Vorticist abstraction. A … Continue reading

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